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When psychiatry decided empathy was overrated: the Jesus-off
A social media post describing a real but deeply unethical psychiatric experiment from the 1950s where three men with schizophrenic delusions of being Jesus Christ were placed together. The accompanying image shows three men in what appears to be an institutional setting from a documentary or film recreation, sitting in chairs with yellow curtains behind them.