Part 1
The Rosenhan experiment used in the establishing the validity of psychiatric diagnosis conducted in 1972 by David Rosenhan, titled “On being sane in insane places” consisted of two main parts. The area second part of the experiment, where the staff in the psychiatric hospitals falsely detected a large number of genuine patients as impostors is not a justification as to why the sane people cannot be distinguished from the insane in psychiatric hospitals (Fontaine 348-365). It is this is because in the experiment, the inability of the nurses to identify the imposters cannot be a generalized aspect, their inability ...