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Rosenhan revisited: successful scientific fraud, 2023, Andrew Scull

Discussion in 'Other psychosomatic news and research' started by CRG, Feb 6, 2023.

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  1. CRG

    CRG Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    History of Psychiatry

    Rosenhan revisited: successful scientific fraud

    Andrew Scull

    Abstract

    The publication of David Rosenhan’s ‘On being sane in insane places’ in Science in 1973 played a crucial role in persuading the American Psychiatric Association to revise its diagnostic manual. The third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III) in its turn launched a revolution in American psychiatry whose reverberations continue to this day. Rosenhan’s paper continues to be cited hundreds of times a year, and its alleged findings are seen as crucial evidence of psychiatry’s failings. Yet based on the findings of an investigative journalist, Susannah Cahalan, and on records she shared with the author, we now know that this research is a spectacularly successful case of scientific fraud.

    Abstract only: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0957154X221150878
     
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    The Great Pretender by Susannah Cahalan review – psychiatry’s dubious past

    "What does it take to be thought of as mentally ill? According to one of the most famous studies in psychiatry, very little. In 1973, the journal Science published “On Being Sane in Insane Places” by the Stanford psychologist David Rosenhan. The paper recounted how he and seven other researchers had gone separately to different psychiatric hospitals and presented a single symptom: hearing voices that said “thud, empty, hollow”. Based on this, they were all committed, most being diagnosed with schizophrenia, and spent an average of 19 days institutionalised against their wills. “We now know,” the paper alarmingly concluded, “that we cannot distinguish insanity from sanity.”

    More at link: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/10/great-pretender-susannah-cahalan

    Autoimmune Diseases Masquerading as Psychiatric Disorders – A Paradigm Shift: https://www.s4me.info/threads/artic...disorders-–-a-paradigm-shift.5324/#post-95521

    Susannah Cahalan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susannah_Cahalan
     
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    Haha. Dubious past. As if when you have a dubious past that never gets corrected it somehow cleans itself up magically, especially when so many built their careers on it.

    No, if you build on fraudulent foundations you get a structure made of a lot of fraud, and maybe some bits that hold themselves. It's the foundations that define a scientific discipline, how solid and valid they are. The foundations of medicine are weak enough as it is, psychiatry is far worse at it because it hasn't cleaned up anything, most of the same ideas are still around, simply labeled differently. If it wasn't for raised standards of living that allowed for a bit more protections against simply being dumped in a facility, hardly anything would have changed.

    And then of course there's the psychiatric exemption and how much the insurance industry profits from it, thanks to the direct involvement of psychiatrists. This corruption thrives in the darkness of gagging and how the second psychiatry gets involved, all agency is removed from the patient and rights suddenly become mere suggestions, no one is holding it accountable anyway.
     
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