This is from the seventies. I wonder if things would be different fifty years later.

I'd say yes. I have a book by Lauren Slater, called 'Opening Skinners Box' in which she researched many psychological experiments of the past, and subjected herself to similar conditions where she could, in an effort to understand better.

The chapter on 'Thud' ended with her visiting a psychiatric hospital of good reputation with an emergency room, she basically said the same things as the researchers in the paper. She was given some anti-psychotics and sent away.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opening_Skinner%27s_Box

	▲	blast 31 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> She was given some anti-psychotics and sent away But that confirms the main point of the experiment, which was that people who didn't need psychiatric treatment were given it anyway. The treatment changed from hospitalization in 1973 to drugs in 2004, but that is secondary. The primary point is that there was no objective way to determine who genuinely needed treatment. She didn't, but was diagnosed anyway. This objection is so obvious that she must have addressed it in the book. Do you remember if she did?

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EtienneDeLyon 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Nope!

https://archive.is/tH0il

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tines 3 hours ago | parent [-]

This isn't really the same situation.

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cwmoore 3 hours ago | parent [-]

That one is a case of mistaken identity, but the same process, same players, and same system.

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tines 2 hours ago | parent [-]

The fact that we're hearing about it means that the process worked, doesn't it?

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cheeseomlit 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Yeah, after he was forcibly injected with drugs against his will.

>Mr. Wright said the hospital later apologized to him and gave him a $50 gift card for a restaurant. The crisis center also apologized and gave him a $25 Walmart gift card.

That alone would be enough to drive me clinically insane

	▲	tines an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Sure, that was the first responders on the scene. The question isn’t about whether mistakes are made, it’s that once they’re made, will they be recognized and fixed? The commenters article doesn’t show what they claim (if not proving the opposite).