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Review of articles one and two
Milagros Taveras
Capital Community College

I found both articles to be interesting. Both articles allowed me to view the topic of mental health in contrasting ways. In article one “Classics in the history of Psychology” it was written in a very factual manner. The author Christopher D. Green had an opinion which he backed up using scientific facts. The second article “On Being in Insane Places” was written as an account of the author D, L Rosenhan’s experience in an mental facility conducting a controlled experiment. Upon reading the first article I thought to myself “what is this man saying?’ but then as I read on the more his argument started to make sense to me. I liked the point he made when he stated
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