Posted on 11/11/2019 9:01:49 AM PST by null and void
His research work was also groundbreaking. In 1973, Rosenhan published the paper “On Being Sane in Insane Places” in the prestigious journal Science, and it was a sensation. The study, in which eight healthy volunteers went undercover as “pseudopatients” in 12 psychiatric hospitals across the country, discovered harrowing conditions that led to national outrage. His findings helped expedite the widespread closure of psychiatric institutions across the country, changing mental health care in the US forever...
...Had Rosenhan been more measured in his treatment of the hospitals, had he included Lando’s data, there’s a chance a different dialogue, less extreme in its certainty, would have emerged from his study, and maybe, just maybe, we’d be in a better place.
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Thanks a bunch, liar.
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BOTH can be true.
There could be harrowing conditions. And the institutions could be necessary.
There have been harrowing conditions in many prisons over the years, yet nobody proposes doing away with prisons.
Very common.
Rachel Carson was a bad scientist. We got rid of DDT and we didn’t need to. Her science was flawed.
Ummmmmm have you watched the news lately?
Your most honorable Nullness. Will comment on this thread at the end of the day. You will know why then and until then, may the Void be still.
There are some on the Left who would advocate for this.
oh wait...
Maybe we need to hold a contest to come up with the most destructive academic in US History.
Rosenhan? Rachel Carson? Bill Ayers? Alfred Kinsey?
It would be a barn-burner of a competition that’s for sure.
From the looks of things in New York and California I’d say they are looking to abolish prisons
Psychological studies have been shown to have something like a 70% rate of irreproducibility. I wonder what the rates are for political science & sociology. Biologists, hard scientists & engineers shouldn’t feel too comfortable their rates irreproducibility in academic papers is scandalous also.
I’d like to see David Horowitz do a ranked list of destructive academics.
Being a history major I’d probably have to go with Howard Zinn.
Unlike a lot of you guys here, I actually worked for a brief time AT a “state hospital” while going to school. This would have been mid 70’s.
Harrowing? No .. geez ... fanciful writing I have to assume.
These days I will assert that pretty much all science is flawed. Carson was just ahead of her time.
fake science.
very interesting story. The history of psychology is certainly rife with fraud, abuse and hubris. We’re still living in the dark ages as far as understanding the human brain in any scientific sense. Better than 1970, but still mostly ignorant.
Definitely should be near the top.
Yes but “harrowing” sells books & gets attention “boring” doesn’t!
Don’t forget Paul Ehrlich.
“One student recalled how Rosenhan opened one of his lectures while sitting on a student’s lap — as a way to test the class’ reaction to abnormal behavior.”
I’m convinced everyone in the field of psychology originally became interested in it because they wanted to figure out what was wrong with themselves.
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