WHEN RESEARCH TAKES ITS TIME (4/5) – In secret, for 20 years, a psychoanalyst studied siblings whom he had placed in different families.
Dazzling, science? Not always. If it can be slow, laborious and repetitive, it is often at this price that it provides answers. Some experiences can even last for decades. Stories of some of these challenges to time.
If fate had not interfered, how long would the study begun in the late 1950s by American psychoanalyst Peter Neubauer have lasted? When he began his research, the doctor doubtless hoped that it would make him famous. But it was not the results of this experiment, carried out in the greatest secrecy for more than twenty years, that finally brought him notoriety. It is the scandal caused by the conditions in which it was carried out. The story, which caused a stir in the 1980s, was brought to the fore in 2018 by Tim Wardle’s documentary Three Identical Strangerspremiered at the Sundance Film Festival, then broadcast on several streaming platforms.
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