David Rosenhan
David Rosenhan was an American psychologist best known for his groundbreaking study in the early 1970s that questioned the validity of psychiatric diagnoses. His experiment, in which he and seven others pretended to have auditory hallucinations to gain admission to various psychiatric hospitals, revealed the difficulties in distinguishing between sanity and insanity, highlighting significant flaws in psychiatric practices and diagnostic criteria.
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David Rosenhan published a bold experiment revealing flaws in psychiatric diagnosis.
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