On Being Sane in Insane Research Proposal

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The results were
that these patients "were never detected" by the psychiatrists as faking
insanity. The overall diagnosis was "schizophrenia in remission" which
indicates that "any diagnostic process" on the part of psychiatrists to
determine sanity or insanity "lends itself so readily to massive errors
that this. . . cannot be a very reliable" process (1973, 252).
Rosenhan then points out that so-called "labeling" by psychiatrists
is quite unreliable and that the experiences within psychiatric
hospitalization needs to be revised and updated to reflect the true nature
of those patients labeled as sane or insane.
Rosenhan concludes by
declaring that it is nearly impossible to distinguish "the sane from the
insane in psychiatric hospitals" and that the consequences of such a
failure "are undoubtedly counter-therapeutic" (1973, 257).
REFERENCES
Rosenhan, D.L. (19 January, 1973). "On….....

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