Psychotronics was a real Eastern-bloc research label for parapsychology and psycho-energetics, the Czech Zdenek Rejdak defined it in the 1960s and Soviet institutes pursued it through the cold war. Jorjani's novel Psychotron (2019) turns the label into a device-concept: a system that uses controlled trauma and technology to restructure minds, with the dual finding that breaking the psyche can open it.
The popular mapping: the psychotron is MKUltra, Monarch, and every remote-influence rumor rolled into one chassis. Declassified files confirm the CIA pursued exactly this goal set, drugs, hypnosis, isolation, trauma, which keeps the fiction uncomfortably close to the archive.
Jorjani's philosophical move: trauma as initiator, the shamanic dismemberment recast as technology. Traditions from mystery schools to boot camps discovered that breaking a self can build a wider one; the psychotron asks whether a state that knows this will industrialize it, or already has.
If trauma is both the break-in tool and the initiation, who is running the program?