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 runtime rated 19 months ago - I spent a few days of my last vacation visiting mental wards around St.Petersburg. They all are located in beautiful pre-Soviet estates of great architecture with nice parks and lakes around. Calm, peaceful, yet terribly stained places. I liked to walk and to look at patients. Some talked to each ot...
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- runtime rated 19 months ago
- I spent a few days of my last vacation visiting mental wards around St.Petersburg. They all are located in beautiful pre-Soviet estates of great architecture with nice parks and lakes around. Calm, peaceful, yet terribly stained places. I liked to walk and to look at patients. Some talked to each other, to staff or visitors, I listened. I didn't use my Nikon with people around. As my friend recently told me - Sasha, they are more humane than most humans.
Thanks to kingboy for the link.
"Despite their public "show" of sanity, the pseudopatients were never detected. Admitted, except in one case, with a diagnosis of schizophrenia, each was discharged with a diagnosis of schizophrenia "in remission." The label "in remission" should in no way be dismissed as a formality, for at no time during any hospitalization had any question been raised about any pseudopatient's simulation. Nor are there any indications in the hospital records that the pseudopatient's status was suspect. Rather, the evidence is strong that, once labeled schizophrenic, the pseudopatient was stuck with that label. If the pseudopatient was to be discharged, he must naturally be "in remission"; but he was not sane, nor, in the institution's view, had he ever been sane."
- DickBeldin rated 19 months ago
- From the page: "It is commonplace, for example, to read about murder trials wherein eminent psychiatrists for the defense are contradicted by equally eminent psychiatrists for the prosecution on the matter of the defendantâ€s sanity. "Some psychiatrists have joined the ranks of lawyers and public relations consultants as "liars for hire". Beware the professional expert witness!
- Thar rated 19 months ago
- From the page: "Such labels, conferred by mental health professionals, are as influential on the patient as they are on his relatives and friends, and it should not surprise anyone that the diagnosis acts on all of them as a self-fulfilling prophecy. Eventually, the patient himself accepts the diagnosis, with all of its surplus meanings and expectations, and behaves accordingly."
- PsYcHoNuRsE rated 19 months ago
- From the page: " If sanity and insanity exist, how shall we know them?"
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