From the Mouth of Madness 2: The Terrycloth Mother

I have such sights to show you

While this is an independent essay, it expands on themes that were covered in an earlier post:

From the Mouth of Madness 1: The Medium is the Message

In 1958, behavioral psychologist Harry Harlow performed the first of several experiments involving infant rhesus monkeys. Harlow separated the infants from their mothers immediately after birth and placed them in cages containing two “mothers.” Both surrogate …