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.AI-powered
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The Rosenhan Experiment (Psychology, Psychiatry, Sanity, Insanity, Schizophrenia, Fraud)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
The Psychotic Effects of Thorazine
Liquid thorazine was introduced in the 1960s as a response to the pervasive problem of patients' cheeking pills. Dr. Rosnahan indicated that there were two cases, though, where the medicine ended up being swallowed. One case involved a patient with enough psychotic symptoms for doctors to prescribe him daily doses of thorazine.
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