Are You Insane?
A psychiatrist sets out to prove “one cannot distinguish the sane from the insane” in psychiatric hospitals.
Photo by Armin Lotfi on Unsplash
IN 1973 A PSYCHIATRIST named David Rosenhan published the results of his highly controversial experiment of sending sane people into psychiatric hospitals with fake symptoms. The article was titled “On Being Sane in Insane Places,” and it described how Rosenhan and several collaborators got themselves admitted into twelve…
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