He Sent Fake Patients To Mental Hospitals And All But One Were Misdiagnosed

During the late '60s and early '70s, psychologist and Stanford University professor David Rosenhan wanted to test the reliability and validity of psychiatric diagnoses. Along with seven of his associates he referred to as "pseudopatients," Rosenhan began calling multiple psychiatric hospitals to make appointments under fake names as part of what would later be known as the Rosenhan experiment. None of these people -- including a psychology graduate student, three psychologists, a pediatrician, a psychiatrist, a painter, and a housewife -- had any history of mental illness, but they pretended to be experiencing auditory hallucinations.In the first part of the...

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