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	Rosenhan experiment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was published in the journal Science under the title "On being sane in insane places".
		The study concluded "It is clear that we cannot distinguish the sane from the insane in psychiatric hospitals" and also illustrated the dangers of depersonalization and labelling in psychiatric institutions.
		Spitzer, R.L. (1975) On pseudoscience in science, logic in remission, and psychiatric diagnosis: a critique of Rosenhan's "On being sane in insane places".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/On_being_sane_in_insane_places (1402 words)

	Rosenhan
		If sane people were not detected as such in a mental hospital, then this would suggest that the environment of the hospital, rather than the individual, is influencing the judgements of hospital staff.
		When released, they were diagnosed as being `schizophrenic in remission' not as being sane.
		Labelling a political opponent as insane, might be a convenient way of suppressing him or her.
	www.garysturt.free-online.co.uk /rosenhan.htm (1176 words)

	On Being Sane In Insane Places
		Much as Zigler and Phillips have demonstrated that there is enormous overlap in the symptoms presented by patients who have been variously diagnosed,[6] so there is enormous overlap in the behaviors of the sane and the insane.
		Upon being admitted, I and other pseudopatients took the initial physical examinations in a semipublic room, where staff members went about their own business as if we were not there.
		It is clear that we cannot distinguish the sane from the insane in psychiatric hospitals.
	psychrights.org /Articles/Rosenham.htm (7244 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Drive Me Crazy
		A related urban legend (minus the humorous overtones of the previous two) tells of psychology students charged with faking their way into a psychiatric care facility by mimicing the symptoms of the truly deranged.
		At what should have been the end of the sojourn, they are unable to convince their caregivers that this wild-sounding claim about being psychology students is anything other than the latest manifestation of their manias.
		Oddly enough, a twist on this legend's premise of the sane being mistaken for inmates of a lunatic asylum did play out in real life in 1993 when FBI agents called in to investigate a psychiatric hospital's financial records attempted to arrange delivery of pizzas to feed late-working agents.
	www.snopes.com /medical/asylum/crazybus.asp (817 words)

	AS Psychology
		The study by Rosenhan on being sane in insane places describes how a hospital rated all admissions over a three-month period on whether they were pseudopatients.
		From the Rosenhan study, 'Sane in Insane Places', give one example of how the pseudopatients' requests for information were dealt with by the staff.
		From the Rosenhan study, 'On being sane in insane places', give one explanation why most of the pseudo patients were admitted to hospital with the incorrect diagnosis of 'schizophrenia'.
	www.holah.karoo.net /rosenhanquestion1.htm (399 words)

	Mental Disorder and Physical Disabiltiy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Being a man in a very achievement-oriented society is incompatible with being mentally disordered; the penalties for stepping out of line are swift and strong.
		Being married is conducive to a man's mental health, security, and well being.
		Thus, a correct interpretation of “On Being Sane in Insane Places” contradicts the author's conclusions.
	www.umsl.edu /~rkeel/200/mendisor.html (2069 words)

	Old Curiosity Shop - On being sane in insane places [May 1997; 39-8]
		Eight sane people (a varied group, from a psychology graduate in his '20s, three psychologists, a paediatrician, a psychiatrist, a painter and a housewife) gained admission to 12 psychiatric hospitals in five US states on the East and West coasts.
		Each staff member was asked to rate each patient presenting at admission according to the likelihood of that patient being a pseudopatient.
		The message about how to treat people is one that even a caring service like the NHS should remember from time to time.
	www.jr2.ox.ac.uk /bandolier/band39/b39-8.html (433 words)

	David Rosenhan \| Stanford Law School
		He is a pioneer in the application of psychological methods to the practice of trial law process, including jury selection and jury consultation.
		Professor Rosenhan is the author of one of the most widely read articles in the field of psychology, “On Being Sane in Insane Places.” He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and has been a visiting fellow at Wolfson College at Oxford University.
		David Rosenhan On Being Sane in Insane Places 179 Science 250 (1973).
	www.law.stanford.edu /directory/profile/52 (167 words)

	Doc To Doc
		Nonetheless, they were held for an average of 19 days (their stays ranged from seven to 52 days) and were all released with a diagnosis of "schizophrenia, in remission," or something like it.
		Rosenhan titled his study "On Being Sane in Insane Places" and argued that psychiatric diagnosis has more to do with the presumptions of clinicians, and their tendency to treat ordinary behavior as pathological when it occurs on a psych ward, than with a rational assessment of symptoms.
		The other pitfall is that once a patient gets labeled with something, even when the symptoms have long resolved, they end up being branded for life.
	doctodoc.blogspot.com /2006/06/challenge-of-psychiatric-diagnosis.html (417 words)

	Insanity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In most states in the United States, legal insanity is not sufficient to avoid a guilty verdict, rather to be not guilty by reason of insanity it must be demonstrated that the defendant could not tell the difference between right and wrong.
		The term is typically negative, but departure from established norms may also be seen as a positive quality; in this case, being "insane" is being daringly unconventional or individualistic.
		Accordingly they pronounce this man insane, for they know that they could never act as he does, as long as they are themselves.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Insane (489 words)

	Rosenhan
		In every instance in which they tried, the pseudopatients got themselves admitted to the mental hospital, and in eleven out of twelve cases they were diagnosed as suffering from schizophrenia.
		Even more surprising, although they immediately stopped complaining of their "symptom" following admission, none of the pseudo-patients was suspected of being a fake by the hospital staff.
		Rosenhan has argued that the results of his study indicate that sanity and insanity cannot be distinguished, and he suggests that when mental health professionals make such distinctions, they do so on the basis of pre-existing expectations.
	www.psychoanalysis.net /~Kathie_Rudy/PSY3310/rosenhan.htm (532 words)

	Reports from the Psych Wars by Richard Ingram (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Though it was established later that she was sane when she was admitted, she was held against her will for two weeks and subjected to shock treatments.
		The mere "likelihood" that you might is enough to justify your being seperated from your family, deprived of your civil rights and forced into indefinite confinement in a mental hospital.
		After being admitted to the hospitals, all the "patients" told the staff that their symptoms had disappeared, and all acted as they normally did.
	www.cinemaniastigma.com /thepsychwars.html (4006 words)

	Appendix 40a - On Being Sane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		On January 19, 1973, a landmark study was published in Science, "Being Sane in Insane Places," by D.L. Rosenhan.
		[459] Eight sane people gained admission to 12 psychiatric hospitals by simulating a single symptom, auditory hallucinations (they heard a voice say, "empty," "dull," and "thud").
		Rosenhan summarizes these studies with the words, "It is clear that we cannot distinguish the sane from the insane in psychiatric hospitals."
	upalumni.org /medschool/appendices/appendix-40a.html (479 words)

	Deviance
		Being in a situation where you have no behavior rules to follow
		Labeling takes place through the role taking of significant others around the person.
		Through role taking the person recognizes the label being presented to them from the other.
	www.uwlax.edu /Sociology/zollweg/s110exam2notes.htm (1285 words)

	On Being Sane in Insane Places
		Psychiatric diagnoses, in this view, are in the minds of the observers and are not valid summaries of characteristics displayed by the observed (3-5).
		While most of the patients were reassured by the pseudopatient's insistence that he had been sick before he came in but was fine now, some continued to believe that the pseudopatient was sane throughout his hospitalization (10).
		Finally, how many patients might be "sane" outside the psychiatric hospital but seem insane in it--not because their illness resides in them, as it were, but because they are responding to a bizarre setting, one that may be unique to institutions which harbor nether people?
	members.aol.com /ahunter3/psych_inmates_libfront/vol_2/Rosenhan/rosenhan.html (3805 words)

	Naturalistic Observation
		Despite the normal behavior, none of the patients were recognized as a "sane" person.
		For instance, the pseudo-patients took extensive notes while they were on the wards and in the open.
		Nursing records indicated that this note-taking behavior was seen as "an aspect of their pathological behavior!" Rosenhan declared that we cannot tell the sane from the insane in psychiatric hospitals.
	www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu /proj/res_meth/rmvl/natobs_soc2.html (196 words)

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	what is normal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Despite acting perfectly sane while in the hospital, none of the pseudo-patients was detected as a pseudo-patient.
		On the other hand, legitimate hospital patients who presumably were insane did detect the pseudo-patients, confronting them with the notion that they did not belong in the hospital.
		In this case, at least, the insane had a far better idea who is sane or not than the “sane” professionals.
	www.ric.edu /jriolo/whatisnormal.htm (492 words)

	APS Observer - Opening Skinner's Box Causes Controversy
		The controversy dates back to Rosenhan's paper, "On Being Sane in Insane Places," which appeared in Science, about eight pseudo-patients who gained admission into mental hospitals by pretending to hear voices saying "empty," "hollow," or "thud." With one exception, the pseudo-patients were diagnosed with schizophrenia, despite behaving regularly in every other way.
		Among them, Loftus denies being called a "whore" at an airport and insists that her house has never been egged despite a vivid description of "yolks drying to a crisp crust" on a window.
		She defends her reporting but suggests that future versions of the book would remove Spitzer's remark about Rosenhan, inserting in its place a paraphrased comment that "Spitzer doesn't say or much sound sorry" when he hears of Rosenhan's poor health.
	www.psychologicalscience.org /observer/getArticle.cfm?id=1947 (1503 words)

	Newman Study Site Rosenhan
		Their schizophrenia was said to be "in remission," implying that it was dormant and could possibly resurface.
		Had the same behaviors been observed in a different context, they no doubt would have been interpreted in an entirely different fashion.
		Rosenhan, D. "On being sane in insane places." Science, 179, 250-258.
	www.pineforge.com /newman4study/resources/rosenhan1.htm (651 words)

	Auditory Hallucinations
		Since the famous paper by Rosenhan, "On Being Sane in Insane Places," (1) the concept of malingering psychosis has been an emotionally charged issue.
		When asked to choose between inside or outside of the head, the split is nearly equal, with 51% endorsing inside, 40% choosing outside, and 9% describing a combination of the two.
		When collateral information is not available, direct observation of the patient when not being interviewed is often helpful, as is repeated interviewing.
	www.inch.com /~jholland/julie/papers/paper1.html (1490 words)

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	www.metafilter.com /tags/insane (449 words)

	The motivation and behavior of police and prosecutors
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		Despite this, the hospital staff continued to document symptomatic behavior in the fake patients, behavior which in another context would be seen as quite reasonable and ordinary (Rosenhan, D. On being sane in insane places.
		If someone begins to interpret everything you do and say in terms of your being "insane" or in terms of your being "guilty" of some crime, then this becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
	www.mtsu.edu /~socwork/frost/mitigation/motivation.htm (861 words)

	Psychology 309
		Davis, D.A. On being detectably sane in insane places.
		Spitizer, R.L. On pseudoscience in science, logic in remission, and psychiatric diagnosis: A critique of Rosenhan's "On being sane in insane places." Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 1975, 84, 442-452.
		Rosenhan: On being sane in insane places, The contextual nature of psychodiagnosis
	www.haverford.edu /psych/ddavis/psych309/P309.98.html (809 words)

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	www.thesmokinggun.com /archive/tedkstuff1.html (434 words)

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	www.d.umn.edu /~bmork/3701/3701Outlines/Outline10b.htm (592 words)

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