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

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

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The Effects of Rosenhans' Study on the DSM

In medicine, remission is the partial or complete disappearance of the signs or symptoms of a disease. If you have schizophrenia and then the symptoms completely vanish, your schizophrenia is in remission even if it comes back at some future point. The DSM presents illnesses and hardline senses but genetically there are overlaps between different diagnoses. Kajalen: "I do think it can do harm to people to slap scary labels on them that they can never get rid of"

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