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Daily Archives: February 15th, 2007

In Unsane Places

“Jesus, I must be crazy to be in a loony-bin like this.” Randle Patrick McMurphy An article from Science (Jan. 1973), On Being Sane in Unsane Places, (also at Susan Ohanian.org) described an experiment in which eight sane people volunteered to be secretly admitted to psychiatric hospitals to find out if hospital staff could distinguish [...]