At the moment I'm about three quarters of the way through 'Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century.' Lauren Slater (psychologist and author) provides an informative and entertaining glimpse into such notable experimentalists as B.F. Skinner, Stanley Milgram, Harry Harlow, and Eric Kandel and touches on what these great experimentalists have shown us about the nature of free will, authoratarianism, conformity, and morality.

As part of her travels she attempts to replicate the "Being Sane in Insane Places" experiment. While she wasn't committed and while she found psychiatrists more respectful of her hearing a voice saying "thud" than the initial experiment she was diagnosed with depression / psychotic depression and given an assortment of anti-depressants and anti-psychotics. Spitzer is rather interesting in his response to her finding and all in all I found her portrayal of some of these great figures to be entertaining, deeply personal, and, at times, somewhat disturbing.

A very entertaining and readable book. Well worth a read.

http://www.amazon.com/Opening-Skinne.../dp/0393050955

(PS one of the amazon reviewers states that the author is a bit of a nut. I concurr but hey, nuts tend to provide entertaining reads so what the hey).