The Rosenhan Experiment: on Being Sane in Insane Places
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The Rosenhan Experiment, a 1973 study on psychiatric diagnosis, is shared, sparking interest in the challenges of distinguishing sanity from insanity in psychiatric settings.
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> Rosenhan’s paper continues to be cited hundreds of times a year, and its alleged findings are seen as crucial evidence of psychiatry’s failings. Yet based on the findings of an investigative journalist, Susannah Cahalan, and on records she shared with the author, we now know that this research is a spectacularly successful case of scientific fraud.
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