I agree the Rosenhan experiment is rather silly, but if you look at the placebo medication vs actual medication studies it does make you question the long term

I agree the Rosenhan experiment is rather silly, but if you look at the placebo medication vs actual medication studies it does make you question the long term effectiveness of the drugs. There is more recent study done in 2007 with the same results but I can't find it right now. This is the 1967 one. Antipychotics really haven't changed as much as most people suggest. This NIMH study looked at one-year outcomes for 299 patients who had been treated either with neuroleptics or placebo upon their admission to a hospital, and was the first long-term study conducted by the NIMH. The researchers found that "patients who received placebo treatment in the drug study were less likely to be rehospitalized than those who received any of the three active phenothiazines (thioridazine (Mellaril), fluphenazine (Prolixin), chlorpromazine (Thorazine)." However, in spite of this finding, which the researchers wrote "was so unexpected," the NIMH investigators stated that they "were unprepared to recommend placebo as treatment of choice." In other words, the NIMH researchers decided they wouldn't develop treatment guidelines based on their own research, which found that placebo patients did better than the drug-treated patients. SEE PAGE 991. http://psychrights.org/research/digest/chronicity/comunityadjustment.pdf http://psychrights.org/research/digest/chronicity/comunityad...