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Psychiatry as a Science?
By Diana Hsieh @ 2:35 PM   
Psychologist Lauren Slater examines and then recreates the infamous Rosenhan experiments in which sane people were locked up in mental institutions for fairly long stretches of time due to a one-time reporting of a voice which said "thud." The result was different... and improvement in some ways, but still somewhat disturbing.
The article is an excerpt from her forthcoming book, Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments Of The 20th Century, which looks promising, based upon the article and the Amazon descriptions. Thanks to Hanah for the pointer, although I would have preferred some of that beautiful and yummy Russian cake.  E-mail Diana Hsieh
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