The Rosenhan Study: On Being Sane in Insane Places (Video) The late Scottish psychiatrist, R. D. Laing, came to believe that psychiatry is a fake science that really serves as a strategic system of control to shore up a violent collapsing society. In his eyes, its categories of madness and sanity have no genuine foundations, madness is simply a convenient label used to lock away those who want to break free. Hundreds of young psychiatrists came to Laing’s talks and an inspired David Rosenhan decided to devise a way of testing whether what Laing said was true or not. The study came to be known as the Rosenhan (or “Thud”) experiment…
Posted on: Mon, 05 May 2014 10:07:01 +0000
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