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

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

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The Negative Effects of Rosenhand's Paper on Mental Health

Despite Rosenhand's apparent misdoings, that doesn't mean that his paper didn't raise legitimate issues. There certainly were poorly run dehumanizing psychiatric institutions at the time. The patient's rights movement has arranged for much better protection for mental patients. But the problem is that we now do not have enough places for people with severe mental illness to go.

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