
The Rosenhan Experiment (Psychology, Psychiatry, Sanity, Insanity, Schizophrenia, Fraud)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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The Effect of Pseudopations on Mental Health
There was a ninth pseudopation, but Dr. Rosenhahn says his data was excluded from the study. He falsified aspects of his personal history, including his marital status and parental relationships. Because he did things the other volunteers did not do, that could have an effect on the way he was treated in the hospital.
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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.
