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This is another example of the results discovered by the Resenhan experiment, where psych students committed themselves to asylums intentionally, but then could
by jobposter1234 12y ago
This is another example of the results discovered by the Resenhan experiment, where psych students committed themselves to asylums intentionally, but then could not prove their sanity and were locked against their will. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenhan_experiment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenhan_experiment)
We live in a very interesting world when trained professionals cannot distinguish between people who pose no danger to themselves or others from people who at one point pretended to be abnormal, but were not.