“Three Identical Strangers”–Triplets and Eugenics
Three Identical Strangers raises difficult questions about how a 1950’s and 60’s psychological study was never made public, even to this day. Much of the data and conclusions remain unclear. In this study by respected psychologist Peter Neubauer, unsuspecting subjects were parents and their adopted sons who were systematically studied and tested. The abuse of power, lasting two decades in the name of science, is the underlying theme of Three Identical Strangers.
Neubauer himself died in 2008 and bequeathed over sixty boxes of interviews, film footage and other raw data to Yale...