
The Rosenhan Experiment (Psychology, Psychiatry, Sanity, Insanity, Schizophrenia, Fraud)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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The Life and Times of David Rosenhand
David Rosenhand was an American psychologist who died in 2012 at the age of 82. He got his PhD in psychology from Columbia University in 1958, and for much of his career, he was a professor of law and psychology at Stanford University in California. His research challenged the integrity of psychological diagnosis; it contributed to widespread changes in the field of psychology. There's always been a question of how to care for people who have mental illness.
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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.
