The story of the "Massachusetts experiment" quickly spread through the entire Internet. Shocking facts, the death penalty, mentally ill patients and experiments on them ...
The whole story took place in 1965, when the American authorities learned what a psychiatrist was doing at the university.
Massachusetts Experiment
According to the author of the story, the experiment onpatients were carried out in the 60s. Dr. James Rogers developed a unique technique with which he achieved success even with terminally ill patients. The essence of the experiment was to strengthen their paranoia so much that, as a result, its new coil appeared, thereby correcting an existing one.
For example, if a patient has always seen aroundhimself huge black bugs, Dr. Rogers did not try to dissuade him. He, on the contrary, said that it is so, that the world is inhabited by these huge creatures. Some people who have a highly developed sensitivity, they are seen, and everyone else is so used to them that they simply do not notice, the state is already aware of all this, but keeps it secret so as not to exaggerate panic. Thus, thanks to the conviction of the doctor, the person left the office, believing that he was completely healthy, resigned to the beetles around him and tried not to notice them. And after a while there were cases that patients were cured at all.
However, there were more complex cases.For example, Aaron Platnovsky, who was a patient of a doctor and suffered from a severe form of mental disorder. The patient was firmly convinced that he was a giraffe, and believed, through the efforts of the doctor, that this was absolutely normal. Rebuke him in this was impossible. Neither a comparison of his picture with a picture of a giraffe, nor logical arguments did not help. Aaron was so accustomed to the role of a giraffe that he stopped talking altogether, only made some lowing sounds. And then he completely abandoned normal human food and switched to grass and leaves.
In 1965, for the "Massachusetts experiment" andmockery of the psyche of patients Dr. James Rogers was sentenced to death. The court considered the actions of the doctor inhuman, immoral and dangerous to people's lives. However, Rogers did not wait for the execution of the punishment. A few days before the execution, he poisoned himself with potassium cyanide, which was given to him by one of the former patients.
According to the author of the story, Dr. Rogers leftafter the angry message in which he said that people are accustomed to the idea that everyone sees this world in the same way. But this is not at all the case, because everyone lives in different worlds. And those who think they are giraffes are just as normal 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. Therefore, it does not matter how we see this world, but as long as we believe in what we see, we are mentally healthy and safe for ourselves and those around us.
Massachusetts Experiment: True or False
An interesting story, isn't it? But is it all true? Most likely not. After all, history has received wide publicity only in
No other information about “Massachusettsexperiment ”or Dr. James Rogers, except for the above, nowhere, even on the Internet. The author of this story wished to remain anonymous. And in the photo, where the doctor is supposedly depicted, he is not at all, but Thompson Hunter Stockton is a famous American journalist and writer who died in 2005.
And of course, the University of Massachusetts psychology and neuropathology does not appear anywhere, except for a sudden link to the article of our anonymous author.
So do not unconditionally believe everything that is written on the Internet, even if it looks very believable.
