![]() ![]() ![]() The paper made Rosenhan a celebrity and fed into the wider anti-psychiatry movement in the culture of the time: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, RD Laing’s The Divided Self, and so forth. ![]() “We now know,” the paper alarmingly concluded, “that we cannot distinguish insanity from sanity.” Based on this, they were all committed, most being diagnosed with schizophrenia, and spent an average of 19 days institutionalised against their wills. The paper recounted how he and seven other researchers had gone separately to different psychiatric hospitals and presented a single symptom: hearing voices that said “thud, empty, hollow”. In 1973, the journal Science published “On Being Sane in Insane Places” by the Stanford psychologist David Rosenhan. W hat does it take to be thought of as mentally ill? According to one of the most famous studies in psychiatry, very little. ![]()
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