Title: Opening Skinner's Box
Author: Lauren Slater
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company (2008)
Summary: In the third chapter of Opening Skinner's Box, Slater discusses various studies performed within mental institutions. In two different experience, completely mentally healthy people willingly admitted themselves to an asylum. In the original experiment, the patients were diagnosed with schizophrenia, but when Slater tried to repeat the experiment, she was not admitted, but instead prescribed with various medications.
Discussion: This article was one of the more interesting articles so far in Opening Skinner's Box. I've often felt that psychiatrists today are too quick to prescribe inattentive children with ADD, so it was an interesting read to see other cases of a similar phenomenon.
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