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Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio.

Hey and welcome to the podcast.

I'm Josh and there's Chuck and Jerry's here, Kovetching.

And that makes this a normal episode of Stuff You Should Know.

That's right, the continuing bucket of Josh's obsession with psychology and psychiatry.

It's so interesting.

I know, I love it.

These always come from you and they're always interesting.

So let's do it.

So we're talking today specifically about a particular study, a very famous psychology

study.

And the whole thing is kind of rooted in context that you have to know, which is that there

was a time up until about the 50s when psychiatrists were considered like unquestionable, no

matter how weird or brutal or potentially life taking their methods were.

If it was a psychiatrist saying this is needed for mental health, then society just went

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