Jan 312004
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.
