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WHO SAYS WHO IS MAD?
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David Rosenhan wondered what would happen if a number of entirely sane people tried to gain admission to a mental hospital by pretending to have one of the symptoms of insanity. Would these sane individuals be classified as insane? If they were admitted to the mental hospital, would the staff realize that a mistake had been made? The answers to these and other questions were obtained in a study in which eight normal people, five men and three women, tried to be admitted to twelve different psychiatric hospitals.
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