{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "In a 1970s experiment, a Stanford  \npsychologist and 7 other mentally  \nhealthy participants got themselves  \nadmitted to 12...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/178878477618/", "html": "<p><a href=\"http://green-217.tumblr.com/post/176035547931/did-you-kno-in-a-1970s-experiment-a-stanford\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">green-217</a>:</p><blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http://didyouknowblog.com/post/176033306663/in-a-1970s-experiment-a-stanford-psychologist\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">did-you-kno</a>:</p>\n<blockquote><p>In a 1970s experiment, a Stanford  \npsychologist and 7 other mentally  \nhealthy participants got themselves  \nadmitted to 12 different psychiatric  \nhospitals across the US  by pretending  \nto hear voices. Once inside, they began  \nacting normally, but all 12 hospitals  \ndiagnosed each of them with disorders,  \nforced them to take drugs, and required  \nthem all to admit they had a disease  \nbefore they could be released.   <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenhan_experiment\" target=\"_blank\">Source</a> <a href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20041117175255/http://web.cocc.edu/lminorevans/on_being_sane_in_insane_places.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Source 2</a></p></blockquote>\n\n<p>This was the study \u2018being sane in insane places\u2019 by David Rosenhan. The purpose of the study was to determine whether or not the staff of asylums could truly determine a person\u2019s sanity after being admitted.</p>\n<p>Rosenhan ans his colleagues did not pretend to hear voices, they pretended to hear a \u2018hollow thud\u2019- something with no basis in psychology. From the get go they were offering the doctors and nurses a chance to deny them entry, but despite the fact that the thing they were faking wasn\u2019t even a real symptom, they were all admitted.</p>\n<p>That very day, the moment of their admission, they went back to acting normal. They went about their day as normally as possible, and waited to see if the staff of each hospital they were in would notice. They stopped reporting hearing the noise that got them admitted.</p>\n<p>The staff never noticed.</p>\n<p>Some of the patients did.</p>\n<p>Despite this, all of them were eventually released, but none were declared sane on release. Some were in the hospital for 2 weeks, one remained for over 50 days.</p>\n<p>What the study proved was that it became impossible to establish sane from insane in the setting of a mental hospital. To retest, after Rosenhan came forward with his findings, he told asylums all over the nation that they\u2019d be doing the experiment again, but with more participants this time. After a certain period, he would ask the head doctors of the \u2018targeted\u2019 asylums which patients they believed were faking it.</p>\n<p>All of the hospitals reported at least one person.</p>\n<p>No one was actually sent in.</p>\n<p>This reiterated the original claim, proving for all that the perception of sanity is reliant on location and societal standards.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<img src=\"/media/tumblr_pc2zr6ji9E1qkvbwso1_500_f5f05979b30c.png\" />", "thumbnail_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/media/tumblr_pc2zr6ji9E1qkvbwso1_500_f5f05979b30c.png", "thumbnail_width": 500, "thumbnail_height": 500}