David Rosenhan, a psychologist at Stanford University, published the results of the experiment in a 1973 issue of the journal Science. Other than making claims about voices and giving themselves phony names and false occupations, the pseudopatients – Rosenhan among them – made up nothing else. Mental-health care was considerably different at the time of the Rosenhan experiment. In a 2004 book, psychologist Lauren Slater claimed to have gone to nine emergency departments and complained of hearing voices, as in the Rosenhan experiment. Nearly half a century after its publication, the Rosenhan experiment has left a lasting impression on psychiatry.

Source: National Post January 01, 2018 19:30 UTC