Stanford professor who changed America
with just one study was also a liar
by
Susannah Cahalan
Original Article
Posted By: GO3,
11/11/2019 8:44:11 PM
Stanford psychology and law professor David Rosenhan could transfix an audience in a crowded lecture hall with just a few words. [snip] “What are we here for? Some things will be black … Others will be white. But be prepared for shades of gray.” Rosenhan would know. His own life, as I would later find out, was filled with shades of gray. His findings helped expedite the widespread closure of psychiatric institutions across the country, changing mental health care in the US forever. And, as I eventually uncovered, he was also not what he appeared to be.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 11/11/2019 9:46:37 PM (No. 232618)
Medicine wouldn't have shut down the mental institutions had they not wanted to do so. This one liar's work was insufficient to shutter all those facilities. The American Psychiatric Association must also have been inclined to shut them down, based no doubt on such faux-films as, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and others. One thing's for certain however, which is that many, many people have suffered needlessly, and even died, as the result of closing the very institutions there to help them. Truly a sad thing and hopefully, this lying piece of excrement received the punishment he deserved for his lies.
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Phyco babble kills, we need comprehensive phyco babble control.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
earlybird 11/11/2019 10:25:00 PM (No. 232637)
I read an awful lot of opinion stated as fact. If she is going to write a treatise like this, she needs to have footnotes to her sources.
Is it really an overlong teaser for her book?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
bdog 11/11/2019 10:52:29 PM (No. 232649)
Ronald Regan, as Governor, closed a couple of mental institutions ans was immediately blamed for the mental health problems in CA. The ACLU sued to have 72 hour commitments ended in CA which was the real cause of the problem
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Vesicant 11/11/2019 10:53:38 PM (No. 232651)
I'd say psychiatry was on a level with witch doctors, but I don't see any reason to insult witch doctors. Everything about psychiatry is pseudo.
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Some institutions in the 1950's were barbaric and certainly archaic buildings. EST was par for the course and ruined many a woman's life because they didn't know how to treat postpartum depression. That being said, something has to be done to get mentally ill people off the streets.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 11/12/2019 2:10:44 AM (No. 232688)
The Cloward-Priven strategy was introduced in 1966. This hot little number of a "study" was 1973. Since I first learned of the diabolic C-P philosophy (thank you Glenn Beck), public policies that made no rational sense have become understandable. They hate us. President Trump is just in the way.
MAGA - Pray. Pray hard.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Trigger2 11/12/2019 3:44:35 AM (No. 232696)
Rosenhan's study was a good reason for states to save money by closing psychiatric institutions so they could take that "savings" and waste it somewhere else.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 11/12/2019 5:53:14 AM (No. 232721)
I'm with #8. Now that the mental institutions are closed, the mentally ill are living on sidewalks, underpasses, etc.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna 11/12/2019 6:57:02 AM (No. 232753)
The Left prefers imaginary problems and avoids real ones.
Mental illness is sad and shocking and very real.
The advent of new and improved drugs tempted government and doctors to close the nut farms.
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[Article updated to 11 Nov. 2019] The author tries to track down pseudo-patients who went undercover under the guidance of psychologist and Stanford professor David Rosenhan to document poor conditions and abuses in mental health institutions. Based on this one flawed study in 1973, we now live with the legacy of needlessly closing down mental institutions and cutting these people lose. According to the author we have about 100,000 mental patients who currently live on the streets.