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onyxhawke — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 02:27:27 GMT

Hey, i noticed we don't have one.

Does anyone want to cast themselves as victim, i mean volunteer?

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SCARY and very interesting psychiatry experiment.

Leslee — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 03:06:50 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwP2PP8CU0Y

Transcript of most of the video clip...

Response to Video: "Voice that said Thud" psychiatry experiment...from the BBC prog in March...
Which is down the side of the video, but the links that have been added to discuss it aren't working, or not for me at least:

"...Commentator - "Laing was now a celebrity in America and was one of the leaders of what was called the 'Anti-psychiatry movement'.
Psychiatry, Laing said, was a fake science used as a system of political control to shore up a violent collapsing society. Its categories of madness and sanity had no reality. Madness was simply a convenient label used to lock away those who wanted to break free."

"Hundreds of young psychiatrists came to Laing's talks and one of them was inspired and decided to find a way of testing whether what Laing said was true or not. Could psychiatrists in America distinguish between madness and sanity?..."

"He was called David Rosenhan and he devised a dramatic experiment. He assembled 8 people, including himself, none of whom had ever had any psychiatric problems.

Each person was sent across the country to a specific mental hospital. At an agreed time, they all presented themselves at their hospital and told the psychiatrist on duty they were hearing a voice in their head that said the word "Thud". That was the only lie they should tell otherwise they were to behave and respond completely normally."

Question - "and then what happened?"

David Rosenhan - "They were all diagnosed as insane and admitted to the hospital."

Question - "All of them?"

David Rosenhan - "All of them."

Question - "And were any of them insane?"

David Rosenhan - "No. There was nobody who could have judged these people as insane. ... but I told friends, I told my family, I get out when I get out; that's all. Be there for a couple of days and then I get out. Nobody knew I would be there for 2 months!"

Commentator - "Once admitted, all 8 fake patients acted completely normally yet the hospitals refused to release them and diagnosed 7 as suffering from schizophrenia and one from bipolar disorder. They were all given powerful psychotropic drugs.

They found there was nothing they could do to convince the doctors they were sane and it quickly became clear that the only way out would be to agree that they were insane and then pretend to be getting better.

David Rosenhan - "The only way out was to point out that they're correct. They said I was insane, I am insane, but I am getting better. That was an affirmation of their view of me."

Commentator - "When Rosenhan finally got out and reported the experiment, there was an uproar. He was accused of trickery and deceit and one major hospital challenged him to send some more fakes to him, guaranteeing that they would spot them this time.

Rosenhan agreed and after a month, the hospital proudly announced that they had discovered 41 fakes. Rosenhan then revealed that he had sent no-one to the hospital." (!)
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unabridged psychology textbook

prometheusPAN — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 21:00:58 GMT

http://tribes.tribe.net/omnipedia/thread/048585db-f70e-4dec-8d03-9a4bf8cd6aa7

I am interested in writing a collaborative and cooperative unabridged textbook on psychology. Minus propaganda, minus psychology history, minus psychology personalities,
and minus the usual ego bickering that is usually presented.

Anybody here interested in that?

What would you list as major chapters?

Any thoughts on how to write a better textbook?

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Pls Help Hurricane Victims Today in Van Nuys

Thu, 08 Sep 2005 13:43:03 GMT

A grass roots organization in Van Nuys, CA needs your assistance today with our Hurricane Katrina caravan to Louisiana. We are calling this effort, Puppies, Babies, and Mommies Too. www.bellapooch.com

Please call me if your school can assist with our efforts. We are receiving non-stop National news coverage on this event. We need your support by spreading the word and coming out to our locations, see above website for details.

Thank you,
Christy Collins
President
AVC Psychology Club
415.401.5312

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Welcome!

Fri, 25 Feb 2005 19:08:22 GMT

Welsome to the School Psychology tribe. Needless to say, this tribe is about all things school psychology, so please feel free to post any information, thoughts, concerns and anything else related to the field. Look forward to hearing from you...!

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