The Rosenhan Experiment (Psychology, Psychiatry, Sanity, Insanity, Schizophrenia, Fraud)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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The Pseudo-Patient Cage
In four hospitals they studied, the staff and attendants spent most of their time in an observation room. They found the staff to be cold and impersonal. The encounter frequently took the following bizarre form: Pardon me, Dr. X. Could you tell me when I am eligible for ground privileges?
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Transcript
The Rosenhan Experiment rocked the psychology profession 50 years ago. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss the study's look into how mental health patients were treated, why the study was so important, and what it revealed about the human mind.
