story about "the Massachusetts experiment" quickly spread around the Internet.The shocking facts, the death penalty, mentally ill patients and experiments on them ... In this picture, according to the anonymous author of the story, depicts a man who designed and conducted the same "Massachusetts experiment" James Rogers - Doctor of the University of Massachusetts psychology and neurology.
The whole story takes place in 1965, when US authorities learned what in the university psychiatrist.
Massachusetts experiment
According to the author's stories, the experiment was conducted in patients over 60 years.Dr. James Rogers has developed a unique method by which he achieved success even with terminally ill patients.The essence of the experiment was to strengthen their paranoia so that as a result there was a new round of her, thus correcting the existing one.
For example, if the patient is always seen around a huge black beetles, Dr. Rogers did not try to dissuade him.Instead, he said that the way it is, that the world is inhabited by these huge creatures.Some people who have highly developed sensitivity, see them, and the rest are so accustomed to it that just do not notice, the state already know all this, but kept secret so as not to stir up panic.Thus, due to the conviction of the doctor man she left the office believing that he is absolutely healthy, humbled with the surrounding beetles and tried to ignore them.And after a while there were cases that the patients were cured completely.
However, there were more complex cases.For example, Platnovsky Aaron, who was a patient of the doctor, and suffered from severe mental illness.The patient was convinced that he was a giraffe, and thanks to the efforts of the doctor thought it was absolutely fine.Dissuade him this was impossible.No comparison of the picture with his image of a giraffe, or logical arguments helped.Aaron is so accustomed to the role of a giraffe that had stopped to talk, just published some lowing sounds.And then completely abandoned the normal human food and moved on to the grass and leaves.
in 1965 for "The Massachusetts experiment" and mockery of mental patients to Dr. James Rogers as a punishment, was sentenced to death.The Court considered the action of the doctor inhuman, immoral and dangerous to human life.Rogers, however, did not wait to bring punishment execution.A few days before his execution, he was poisoned with potassium cyanide, which he handed over some of the former patients.
According to the author of history, Dr. Rogers is survived by his angry letter in which he talked about the fact that people are accustomed to the idea that everyone sees the world the same way.But this is not so, because all live in different worlds.And those who believe that they are giraffes, such as normal, as well as those who see that the sky is blue.After all, there are scientists who can also prove that it is not at all blue.So no matter how we see the world, but we believe in what we see - we are mentally healthy and not dangerous to themselves and others.
Massachusetts experiment: true or false
interesting story, is not it?But is all this?Most likely not.After the story was widely publicized only on the Internet, and there could be anything.And not necessarily that it's true.
No other information about the "Massachusetts experiment" or Dr. James Rogers, in addition to the above, anywhere, even online.The author of this story preferred to remain anonymous.And photos, which allegedly depicts a doctor, is not he, but Hunter Stockton Thompson - the famous American journalist and writer, who died in 2005.
And of course, the University of Massachusetts psychology and neurology does not appear anywhere, except for the sudden reference to the article of our anonymous author.
So do not unconditionally believe everything you read on the Internet, even if it looks very plausible.
