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

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

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The Importance of Being Sane in Insane Places

If sanity and insanity exist, how shall we know them? The question is neither capricious nor itself insane. Dr. Rosnahn then goes through the details of how his experiment was conducted. He describes how eight individuals were sent into 12 different hospitals. They were all healthy and had never been diagnosed with a serious mental illness.

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