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New Study Refutes Common Belief About Effects of Solitary Confinement

It has been commonly believed for some years now that prolonged solitary confinement in prison is psychologically damaging. Now a "carefully performed study calls those beliefs into question," Paul Appelbaum, M.D., the Dollard Professor of Psychiatry, Medicine and Law at Columbia University and a past APA president, told Psychiatric News. "The intuition that many people have that, 'If they ever put me in solitary, I'd go crazy,' just doesn't reflect what actually occurs." The study was conducted by Jeffrey Metzner, M.D., a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Colorado, and colleagues....

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Published By: Psychiatric News - Monday, 22 April