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161. Roy Richard Grinker — Nobody’s Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

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The History of Psychiatry

When that paper came out and we read it, i was taking an abnormal course, actually, at pepperdine university in malaboo. And as part of our course, we had to spend one day a week at camorio state hospital,. which is just up the pc h there, about forty five minutes drive. I mean, this place was like right out of one flew ot of the cuckoo's nest. And i realized then i didn't want to be a clinician. I wanted to be like an experimental psychologist, not a clinical psychologist in that big devise. Cause it was just so depressing to be there.

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