
The Rosenhan Experiment (Psychology, Psychiatry, Sanity, Insanity, Schizophrenia, Fraud)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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The Death of David Rosenhand
David Rosenhand passed away before I started the study. Harry Landau believes very ardently that his data did not support the thesis that David Rosenhand was writing. It looks like the real reason he cut patient nine from the study was because patient nine had a great experience in the hospital. And that didn't fit the thesis. He wanted all of the patients he reported on to have had horrible experiences.
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Transcript

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.
