From: Timothy Bates (tbates@karri.bhs.mq.edu.au)
Date: Sun Oct 17 1999 - 22:27:00 MDT
on 10/18/99 10:21 AM, phil osborn wrote:
> The last thing I particularly recall about these jerks was when Thomas Ssazz
> (sp?) ("The Manufacture of Madness," various other works) did his famous
> study in which he sent grad student volunteers in to pose as patients in
> various psychiatric hospitals.
You are completely wrong. He did not do this study. You woudl be right, if,
for instance, you mentioned his patient who immolated herself while he tried
to figure out which part of society was labelling her to hide its own
illness.
tim
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