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The Rosenhan Experiment (Psychology, Psychiatry, Sanity, Insanity, Schizophrenia, Fraud)

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

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Rosenhahn's Paper on the Misdiagnosis of Psychiatric Illnesses

Rosenhahn made it sound like the psychiatric hospitals were casually misdiagnosing people with schizophrenia. But we now know, at least in Rosenhahn's own case, that wasn't what happened. He reported a bunch of symptoms and then lied to the psychiatric staff.

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