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In the early 1960s, two boys diagnosed with schizophrenia reported seeing green monsters. They were hallucinating. Psychologist Leonard Cobrinik reported verbatim some of the boys’ words:
They [the boys] said, ‘You are cheating us out of time. You are trying to make us crazy, make us sad, make us do things’. They tended to identify with each other against the examiners. Later one said, ‘you were making us see green monsters but we wouldn’t tell you’ (Bender et al., 1966, p. 485).
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McNally, K. (2016). Introduction. In: A Critical History of Schizophrenia. Palgrave Studies in the Theory and History of Psychology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137456816_1
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