I have an aunt who suffers from schizophrenia. When I was a child, I wasn’t aware of her diagnoses, I was too young to understand what it meant. I remember thinking she was a little odd. I never understood why she talked to herself when she did the dishes, or why she would burst into… Read more

In his excerpt, The Pathology of Imprisonment, Philip G. Zimbardo discusses a study that he conducted to investigate the relationship between prison guards and inmates. He did so upon receiving a letter from an inmate who had recently been released from solitary confinement after having been abused and stripped of his basic human rights for… Read more