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Rosenhan experiment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (713 words) |
 | For this experiment, Rosenhan used a well-known research and teaching hospital, whose staff had heard of the results of the initial study, but claimed that similar errors could not be made at their institution. |
| Rosenhan claimed that during a three month period, one or more pseudopatients would attempt to gain admission and the staff were required to detect which patients were impostors. |
| Rosenhan published his findings in Science, criticising the validity of psychiatric diagnosis and the disempowering and demeaning nature of patient care experienced by the associates in the study. |
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| Rosenhan claims that the study demonstrates that psychiatrists cannot reliably tell the difference between people who are sane and those who are insane. |
| Rosenhan explains that psychiatric labels tend to stick in a way that medical labels do not and that everything a patient does is interpreted in accordance with the diagnostic label once it has been applied. |
| Rosenhan noted that experience of hospitalisation for the pseudo patients was one of depersonalisation and powerlessness. |
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