Source: Futility Closet
In the 1970s psychologist David Rosenhan sent healthy volunteers to 12 psychiatric hospitals, where they claimed to be hearing voices. Once they were admitted, they behaved normally, but the hospitals diagnosed all of them as seriously mentally ill. In this week’s episode of the Futility Closet podcast we’ll describe the Rosenhan experiment, which challenged the validity of psychiatric diagnosis and set off a furor in the field.
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Sources for our feature on the Rosenhan experiment:
Roger R. Hock, Forty Studies That Changed Psychology, 2009.
Dusan Kecmanovic, Controversies and Dilemmas in Contemporary Psychiatry, 2017.
Donald O. Granberg and John F. Galliher, A Most Human Enterprise, 2010.
David Rosenhan, “On Being Sane in Insane Places,” Science 179:4070 (Jan. 19, 1973), 250–258.
Paul R. Fleischman et al., “Psychiatric Diagnosis,” Science, New Series 180:4084 (April 27, 1973), 356+358+360-369.
Robert L. Spitzer, “On Pseudoscience in Science, Logic in Remission, and Psychiatric Diagnosis: A Critique of Rosenhan’s ‘On Being Sane in Insane Places,’” Journal of Abnormal Psychology 84:5, 442–452.
Ulric Neisser, “Reversibility of Psychiatric Diagnoses,” Science, New Series 180:4091 (June 15, 1973), 1116.
Martin Bulmer, “Are Pseudo-Patient Studies Justified?,” Journal of Medical Ethics 8:2 (June 1982), 65-71.
Peter C. Gaughwin, “On Being Insane in Medico-Legal Places: The Importance of Taking a Complete History in Forensic Mental Health Assessment,” Psychiatry, Psychology and Law 12:2 (2005), 298-310.
Theodore Millon, “Reflections on Rosenhan’s ‘On Being Sane in Insane Places,’” Journal of Abnormal Psychology 84:5 (October 1975), 456-461.
Maurice K. Temerlin, “Suggestion Effects in Psychiatric Diagnosis,” Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 147:4 (October 1968),…
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