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How We Treat the Insane
Spingarn, Jerome H. | March 5, 1949 issue

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The article presents the book "The Shame of the States," by Albert Deutsch. Advances in psychological research are avidly absorbed by a growing minority but the vast majority, including most members of state legislatures, seem still to cling to the eighteenth-century idea. The law frequently reflects this attitude. The maintenance and administration of many mental intuitions seem to proceed on the theory that their sole function is to sequester dangerous or annoying persons. Deutsch's intimate knowledge of the field made it possible for him, with or without cooperation.

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SHAME of the States, The (Book); DEUTSCH, Albert; PSYCHOLOGY -- Research; ASSOCIATIONS, institutions, etc.; LEGISLATIVE bodies; LAW
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