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What was done to those patients seemed incredibly cruel. It's one thing to have the patients confront each others' delusions. It's quite another to cause them d
by rthomas6 12y ago
What was done to those patients seemed incredibly cruel. It's one thing to have the patients confront each others' delusions. It's quite another to cause them distress just to see what happens.
- trhway 12y ago>What was done to those patients seemed incredibly cruel. compare to lobotomy, electric shock and other things that were "normal" back then? Not that i disagree with you, just putting in perspective.
- jljljl 12y agoThe author came to agree with this over time: "Rokeach came to think that his research had been manipulative and unethical, and he offered an apology in the afterword of the 1984 edition of the book: "I really had no right, even in the name of science, to play God and interfere round the clock with their daily lives." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Christs_of_Ypsilanti http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Christs_of_Ypsilanti
- dang 12y agoIt's poignant how he inadvertently mentions four gods, then realizes that he was the fourth.