7/08/2008

Institutionalization syndrome

In 70 years, a psychologist at Stanford University David Rosenhan demonstrated in an experiment that once someone is catalogued for mentally ill, will cost rid of the label, do what you do.

Mandó eight people ropes to a psychiatric hospital, where he told that suffered hallucinations and heard voices.
After being admitted, all of them behaved with complete normality, in vain: being diagnosed with schizophrenia.
Only noticed the real sham patients, they said: "you are not crazy, you've come here to investigate."

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