This article traces the history of the way in which mental disorders were viewed and treated,
from before the birth of Christ to the present day. Special attention is paid to the process of …

Pity, disgust, fear, cure, and prevention--all are words that Americans have used to make
sense of what today we call intellectual disability. Inventing the Feeble Mind explores the …

Complete and accurate understandings of stratification depend on more regular
consideration of disability. To build sociologists' recognition of disability as a socially …

Abstract The Ethics Code for Behavior Analysts (BACB Code; Behavior Analyst Certification
Board®,) includes six items in “Section 6—Responsibility in Research''that cover the …

This paper discusses the impact of White supremacy, ableism, and US policing on both the
history and current state of psychology and sheds light on ways that psychologists can …

Acute mental health services are a critical element in the continuum of mental health care.
The setting in which treatment is provided for acute mental health crises is often the inpatient …

Erwin Friedman was born in Budapest, Hungary. In 1944 during World War II, he was
deported from Budapest; however, he escaped from German control and returned to …

Abstract The Willowbrook Hepatitis Study is one of the best-known examples of unethical
medical research, but the research has always had defenders. One of the more intriguing …

This essay documents the history of the Gouverneur Parents Association (GPA), a group of
mostly Black and Latinx parents whose disabled children were institutionalized at the …

Background: Introductory Psychology students rarely learn about unethical biomedical
research outside the Tuskegee syphilis study, but these practices were widespread in US …