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

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

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The Effect of Psychiatric Medicine on Pseudo-Patients

The experiment was to see how quickly the staff would detect that these pseudo-patients were normal. The volunteers presented themselves as totally normal, and they waited to see if the staff would figure out that they were normal. A special word should be said about the medications because if you're a normal person who does not need psychiatric medicine and you start taking it anyway, it can mess you up.

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