ROSENHAN EXPERIMENT - On being sane in insane places

[WebOfEvidence]

I was treated as insane because I knew 9/11 was an inside job. Even though I presented them with evidence to show I was grounded in reality, they ignored it and forced me to take anti-psychotic medication. After 11 days, I got the Consumer Rights Advocate to force the chief psychiatrist to look at the evidence, as a professional should, and after about 15 minutes I was released.

I think they use labels of delusional and psychotic to manage their own discomfort with reality.

[ria416]

@WebOfEvidence, your story just goes to show how fucked up society is as a whole! bless you for going through that rubbish just for having the guts to be open-minded and not another media-driven drone. i also know that 9/11 was an inside job. scientifically there's just too much evidence to show a plane cannot break steel so quickly, even at that magnitude and force, it's just not possible. people need to think outside the box where they are not totally suppressed by standardised knowledge!

[debiaptget]

Psychiatry nowadays is what medicine was in middle ages.

[christl301]

Makes you wonder what happened to the 41 people who were turned away??

[theabomation]

Rosenhan experiment also showed how cold and indifferent most institutions are to there clients even when it was obvious that the three people were not mentally insane the doctors still did not listen...

[roottherm01]

hospitals in general are DISEASED<DANGEROUS<DAMAGING now you have one thats run by a doctor of falsety. more people have died in mental institutions since 1967 than every soldier in EVERY war since 1776.

[2bobwanker]

@roottherm01 How many people have died in normal hosptials then?

[LitenFlicka]

Too true of psychiatry in general; hospitals, therapists, psychiatrists, and psychologists.. Everything is viewed in relation to mental illness rather than objectively and everyone is medicated. Only way out or to be considered "progressing/improving" is being completely compliant with whatever medical staff thinks and medication, logical or not.

[670Kiester]

Btw this is from Adam Curtis' The Trap

I'm very interested in these experiments, would like to know more,

Cheers

[dvdmhn]

Being a psychiatrist the result of Rosenhan experiment is a true bitter taste. This experiment is amazing. Not only does it prove something about schizophrenia, but also the most incredible discoveries appear after being admitted to the hospital. Rosenhan's group become almost a perfect experiment group in regard to real patients admitted to hospital.

[roottherm01]

get rid of your need to be right

[mscir]

Transpersonal therapists are a lot more open-minded than this, and they have lots of very effective techniques to help uncover or work on things. So before going to a mental hospital, unless you're really afraid of hurting yourself or someone else, I recommend looking for a good therapist who studied transpersonal techniques.