Introduction : blank is beautiful : three decades of erasing and remaking the world

The torture lab : Ewen Cameron, the CIA and the maniacal quest to erase and remake the human mind

The other Doctor Shock : Milton Friedman and the search for a laissez-faire laboratory

States of shock : the bloody birth of the counter-revolution

Cleaning the slate : terror does its work

"Entirely unrelated" : how an ideology was cleansed of its crimes

Saved by a war : Thatcherism and its useful enemies

The new Dr. Shock : economic warfare replaces dictatorship

Crisis works : the packaging of shock therapy

Slamming the door on history : a crisis in Poland, a massacre in China

Democracy born in chains : South Africa's constricted freedom

Bonfire of a young democracy : Russia chooses "the Pinochet option"

The capitalist ID : Russia and the new era of the boor market

Let it burn : the looting of Asia and "the fall of the second Berlin Wall"

Shock therapy in the U.S.A. : the Homeland security bubble

A corporatist state : removing the revolving door, putting in an archway

Erasing Iraq : in search of a "model" for the Middle East

Ideological blowback : a very capitalist disaster

Full circle : from blank slate to scorched earth

Blanking the beach : "the second tsunami"

Disaster apartheid : a world of green zones and red zones

Losing the peace incentive : Israel as warning

Conclusion : shock wears off : the rise of people's reconstruction.