
How The Rosenhan Experiment Worked
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Why I'm Acting This Way, Danny DeVito
Rosenhahn says that none of the pseudo patients were closely examined by the psychiatric staff. He defends this, you know, potential flaw in his design and saying like these hospitals had plenty of opportunity to closely examine the pseudo patients,. And they didn't. So whether that was the reason they didn't find them out or not, it was still a huge failing of the psychiatric system and their process.
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