{"id":462,"date":"2008-04-14T11:34:03","date_gmt":"2008-04-14T11:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astick.net\/blog\/?p=23"},"modified":"2014-02-02T22:36:35","modified_gmt":"2014-02-02T22:36:35","slug":"random-article-rosenhan-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/random-article-rosenhan-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"Random article: Rosenhan experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rosenhan_experiment\">Rosenhan experiment<\/a><\/strong> was a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_famous_experiments\" class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"List of famous experiments\">famous experiment<\/a> into the validity of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Psychiatry\" title=\"Psychiatry\">psychiatric<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Diagnosis\" title=\"Diagnosis\">diagnosis<\/a> conducted by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Rosenhan\" title=\"David Rosenhan\">David Rosenhan<\/a> in 1972. It was published in the journal <i><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Science_%28journal%29\" title=\"Science (journal)\">Science<\/a><\/i> under the title &#8220;On being sane in insane places.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rosenhan&#8217;s study consisted of two parts. The first involved the use of healthy associates or &#8220;pseudopatients,&#8221; who briefly simulated auditory <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hallucination\" title=\"Hallucination\">hallucinations<\/a> in an attempt to gain admission to 12 different <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Psychiatric_hospital\" title=\"Psychiatric hospital\">psychiatric hospitals<\/a> in five different states in various locations in the United States. The second involved asking staff at a psychiatric hospital to detect non-existent &#8220;fake&#8221; patients. In the first case hospital staff failed to detect a single pseudopatient, in the second the staff falsely detected large numbers of genuine patients as impostors. The study is considered an important and influential criticism of psychiatric diagnosis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rosenhan experiment was a famous experiment into the validity of psychiatric diagnosis conducted by David Rosenhan in 1972. It was published in the journal Science under the title &#8220;On being sane in insane places.&#8221; Rosenhan&#8217;s study consisted of two parts. The first involved the use of healthy associates or &#8220;pseudopatients,&#8221; who briefly simulated auditory &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/random-article-rosenhan-experiment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Random article: Rosenhan experiment<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":548,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions\/548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}