David Rosenhan’s 1973 experiment showed how easily healthy people could be diagnosed with mental illness in psychiatric ...

David Rosenhan's infamous 1973 study "On Being Sane in Insane Places" has been in the news lately. The original study, published in the prominent journal Science, involved Rosenhan, a Stanford ...

In 1973, psychologist and Stanford University professor David Rosenhan published a journal article that shook the world of psychiatry to its core. "On Being Sane in Insane Places" was the result of a ...

Ten years ago, Susannah Cahalan was hospitalized with mysterious and terrifying symptoms. She believed an army of bedbugs had invaded her apartment. She believed her father had tried to abduct her and ...

In the Rosenhan Experiment, one of the most shocking experiments in the history of science, psychiatrist David Rosenhan and seven of his sane friends are admitted to different psychiatric hospitals ...