Mind: Given Medicine, The Patients Got Better. They Remained In Shackles Anyway.

BENEDICT CAREY, NY Times: Health
Wed, 01/17/2018 - 2:51pm

In West Africa, people with psychoses are often chained at prayer camps. Giving them psychiatric drugs lessened their symptoms, but did not shorten their captivity.

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