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The images below depict an American psychiatrist James Rogers He was sentenced to death in 1965 on electric chair allegedly for professional incompetence and Inappropriate methods of working with patients. However, the doctor does not waited for execution and two days before it he laid hands on himself in a prison cell, poisoning himself with an ampoule of poison that someone carried to him from visiting friends.
The so-called Massachusetts experiment in the framework of which Rogers acted on seemingly quite hopelessly insane people in completely unthinkable ways. According to his method, the doctor intensified the paranoia of patients so much so that her new round simply corrected everything trouble miserable.
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University of Massachusetts Neuropathology and psychology, where this amazing person once worked, recently recognized that the experiment was of tremendous scientific value, and its effectiveness is undeniable. In front of the living relatives of Rogers I sincerely apologized. However, a unique technique, developed by a specialist, for some reason they’re never used, and this suggests the idea that psychiatry, like any other branches of clinical medicine do not need convalescence sick.
What was the Massachusetts experiment
One day, a patient came to Dr. Rogers who was convinced that hordes of beetles crawl on all surfaces around it. Other the doctor would immediately begin to prove to the patient that he was mistaken, and no insects.
James went the other way and told the man that countless beetles are really present around, but they are far from being seen all. Like, only particularly sensitive people are able to notice them, and official medicine is trying not to talk about it. The patient, realizing that everything is really in order with him, gradually reconciled with insects and eventually ceased to respond to them as something out of the ordinary. This eventually allowed the man get rid of your fears and lead a normal life.
Another patient named Aaron Platnovsky, who suffered cognitive-enphyous mental disorder, considered himself a giraffe. No logical reasoning, beliefs or comparisons with photos real giraffes did not help him. The patient was sure that he not a man, one hundred percent. He didn’t talk to anyone, but from food agreed to eat only leaves.
When James Rogers tackled this man, he asked his friend biologist write a fictitious scientific article stating that scientists made a stunning discovery: it turns out in nature there are giraffes that look, think and talk like people. And even the food they need is the same as Homo Sapiens. Platnovsky, acquainted with this material, calmed down and soon socialized. Former patient, who eventually became an auditor in large company, even spoke at the trial in defense of his psychiatrist.
The last words of the psychiatrist
Alas, the court considered the medic a charlatan and recognized his experiment inhumane. James was sentenced to capital punishment. Shortly before his suicide, he transmitted a message to the judge, which asked to publish in some newspaper. Local The Massachusetts Daily Collegian performed the latest the will of the doctor and published his letter stating:
“It is generally accepted that all people should perceive the world equally, but this is by no means the case. If a few people gather together and try to tell each other the most obvious and simple, at first glance, concepts, they will suddenly understand that live in completely different worlds. And only the comfort of personality determines her mental calm.
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If an individual considers himself a giraffe and none of those around him denies this, then he is as normal in his world as you – in his. One for whom the grass is blue and the sky is green does not need convince him of this, but on the contrary, you should agree with him, and then his psyche will be in perfect order. There is no principal the differences between him and a normal person who sees grass and the sky painted in the “right” colors.
Many people believe in God, in the afterlife, in aliens, in reincarnation. Is a man living in harmony dangerous for society with your convictions and faith? Of course no. But try take it from him, and he really will become insane, because doesn’t want to be in an alien and cold world for himself, where he she doesn’t understand anything and where she can’t rely on anything.
So it doesn’t matter what properties you give your personal world. As long as you believe in them, they are real, and while with them no one is fighting, they are not dangerous. ”
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