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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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.
