Thread:Jester of chaos/@comment-3364901-20180719023915/@comment-2059440-20180719030154

as I said, look up asylums Wire - they were not really medical places, they were torture dungeons based on ignorance and fear.. staff and patients both went insane in those places.. staff also grew sadistic and psychopathic.. not dissimilar to prisons of old or any place that favored cruelty and imprisonment over actual care.. asylums were never truly meant to aid, that's why they don't exist any more.. the world has changed incredibly since those days: lobotomy, straitjackets, padded cells / solitary confinement and unrestrained human experimentation were all common in asylums.

it wasn't really until afte WWII that people really woke up to how messed up things like that were and in 1950s they finally created anti-psychotic drugs.. which killed off many "lunatic asylums".

the point is psychologists and psychiatrists are doctors / scientists.. they aren't magically immune to corruption, trauma, psychosis or even simply being horrific sociopaths.. no more than any other profession : also much like police, emergency services and soldiers you really think a profession like psychology or psychiatry can't test people's psyches? even professionals.. like Joker said "all it takes is one bad day".

plus Arkham Asylum by its very nature of being an Asylum is a horrible place that breeds psychotics by its very existence.. people can go to asylums sane and come out insane.

also comic books have many loopholes that real-life doesn't : for example why isn't Joker eternally drugged up on sedatives? simple, because if he was there'd be no stories to make.

Hugo Strange is not that different from some actual asylum "doctors" of old.. there's still plenty of psychopaths / mentally ill psychologists and psychiatrists around.. - while he was not a psychologist look up Harold Shipman, one of the most prolific modern serial killers of all time.. he was general practitioner.. so yeah.. perfectly able to have psychopaths enter medical system undetected.