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Woman held psychiatric ward for (correctly) saying Obama follows her on Twitter
- informatimago 12y agoObviously, she's crazy: telling the truth in this world? Crazy!
- breakingcups 12y agoThanks, Obama!
- chucksmart 12y agoPsychiatrist may be clever; but they fall for cognitive miser traps continuously when they apply the DSM at too high a frequency.
- jobposter1234 12y agoThis is another example of the results discovered by the Resenhan experiment, where psych students committed themselves to asylums intentionally, but then could not prove their sanity and were locked against their will. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenhan_experiment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenhan_experiment) We live in a very interesting world when trained professionals cannot distinguish between people who pose no danger to themselves or others from people who at one point pretended to be abnormal, but were not.
- fit2rule 12y agoYet another example how the state-funded religion of Psychiatry is used as a means of social control. Albeit, a relatively trivial example, in consideration of all the other political prisoners that have been 'committed for their own good' ..