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.AI-powered
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The Rosenhan Experiment (Psychology, Psychiatry, Sanity, Insanity, Schizophrenia, Fraud)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
The Case of a Pseudo-Patient
The 12 hospitals in the sample were located in five different states on the east and west coasts. All but one of the pseudo-patients were diagnosed as schizophrenia. The other was diagnosed as manic depressive or having what today is called bipolar disorder. Rosenhahn: "No further alterations of person, history, or circumstances were made"
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