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Originally Posted by divine1966
It’s not what the experiment was about. Not playing G-d in a privacy of the room. It was about humans’ tendency to be obedient and follow authorities under certain circumstances. It sadly explains how genocides and such make possible. Nothing to do with people doing things in private versus in the open.
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Part of that experiment was doing as one was told to another human being (the participants thought) in the privacy of the room. Under the instructions of the authority, yes. The similarity with therapy, which I left out of what I said, is the authority which comes from therapists' role, their license, and perhaps their training, which are given -- authorized? -- to them by society, by social context.
Not a one-to-one analogy for sure. But Bud's quote did bring that experiment to my mind.
The Stanford prison experiment is another one about the effect of social context. Not a lot of similarity with therapy, maybe, but still illustrates the effect that context can have.