I remember reading a couple years ago about the device in this article, and thinking it was only a matter of time before someone got their feathers ruffled.
In an unrelated matter, I wrote down this fantastic sentence from a Grand Rounds lecture on the psychoanalysis of a large sample of medical students' dreams:
"Symbolic alterations of reality are representations of the real self and attempts at repairing self representation by revealing the real self."
Also, I have to find out if these stories are true (the latter I'm pretty sure about since I heard it from a first hand source). The setting I heard them in was a case conference where attendings were sharing war-stories of when delusions turned out to not really be delusions:
1. A fellow comes into an emergency room in a hospital in Queens seeking refuge because someone is chasing him. "Who's chasing you?" one of the on-call residents ask. "Some crazy dwarf." Eyebrows are raised, knowing looks exchanged, and the patient is escorted to the "other emergency room", where he denies being delusional or hallucinating, and is put in solitary confinement. That is, until later on an agitated dwarf from a Coney Island show is arrested while trying to track this guy down. I really hope it's a true story.
2. Another fellow comes into the Montefiore psychiatric ER for one reason or another paranoid that the CIA is after him. He insists that he was part of an elite team within a national security organization and something went bad, and now they're out to get him. Time passes. It's difficult to track down collateral information about the guy as it appears that he had multiple identities. A few days later, men in military uniform arrive and escort him away.
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