Psychology: Treatment & Experiments

Presents an essay from Oliver Sacks that describes the history of state mental hospitals, along with photographs by Christopher Payne that capture the neglected and abandoned buildings, grounds, and equipment at more than seventy facilities.

Reveals the details of the Milgram shock experiments, uncovering that the majority of the subjects were not de-hoaxed in a timely fashion, leaving the experiment believing that they had shocked a man quite severely and suffered trauma as a result; many saw through the deception and continued to give shocks believing they were harmless; and finally Milgram suppressed the condition in which people intimate with one another were paired as teacher and learner.