Rosenhan (1973) Experiment – ‘On being sane in insane places’

I understand how the Rothchilds and Rockefellers have used their wealth and influence to take over medicine, turning it from natural remedies to their petrochemical concoctions through corrupting the institutions of “higher learning” with donations and required board seats, but some studies done to expose the results are still shocking. The Daily Beagle has an article Start Questioning – Win A Free Mental Health Diagnosis showing the Dr. William Makis interview about doctors dying post vaccination along with guidance from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario that vaccine deniers are in need of psychiatric medicine. The interesting part of the article is reference to Prof. David Rosenhan of Stanford doing an experiment to see if psychiatric hospital staff would misdiagnose and admit patients with no mental disorder, and if they would recognize later that they had no disorder and release them. They failed miserably. The false patients initially said they had heard voices, but after being admitted to the hospital they said their symptoms were gone. And while hospitalized they avoided taking the medications with one anomaly. Consequently, to further prove how ridiculous their diagnosis’s, the professor said he’d send more pseudo patients (he didn’t), and they were misdiagnosing patients as normal and healthy. Supposedly after his death, there was great effort to discredit the professor and his study.

Summary

  • Between 1969 and 1972, Prof. David Rosenhan, a psychiatrist at Stanford University, sent eight pseudo-patients to 12 psychiatric hospitals without revealing this to the staff. None of the pseudo-patients had any symptoms or history of mental disorders.
  • In all 12 instances, pseudo-patients were diagnosed with a mental disorder and hospitalised. In no instance was the misdiagnosis discovered during hospitalisation.
  • In some of the 12 hospital stays, pseudo-patients observed significant deficits in patient-staff contact.
  • In a follow-up study at one hospital, Prof. Rosenhan asked staff to rate patients seeking admission on a 10-point scale, from “highly likely to be a (healthy) pseudo-patient” (1 or 2) to “least likely to be a pseudo-patient.” Staff were aware of the previous study, and told one or more pseudo-patients would be sent their way, unannounced. Forty-one (21.24%) of 193 patients received a 1 or 2 score. No pseudo-patients were, in fact, sent.
  • These findings provided convincing evidence against the accuracy and validity of psychiatric diagnoses.
  • The current state of psychiatric diagnoses is still broadly at odds with recent neurological findings, leading to uncertainty regarding their accuracy. A number of interventions are proposed or underway to correct this. None counts with widespread support yet.

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