Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century
Author: Lauren Slater
Desc: Beginning with B. F. Skinner and the legend of a child raised in a box Slater takes us from a deep empathy with Stanley Milgram's obedience subjects to a funny and disturbing re-creation of an experiment questioning the validity of psychiatric diagnosis. Previously described only in academic journals and textbooks these often daring experiments have never before been narrated as stories chock-full of plot wit personality and theme.