David Rosenhan
Stanford psychologist whose 1973 study 'On Being Sane in Insane Places' challenged psychiatric diagnosis and is the central subject of the episode and subsequent investigation.
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Jul 23, 2024 • 58min
The Fraud that Transformed Psychiatry
Bill Underwood, a former psychology grad student who went undercover in Rosenhan's study, and Susanna Cahalan, investigative journalist and author, unpack the controversial 1973 study by David Rosenhan, a Stanford psychologist. They discuss how the fake-patient experiment was conducted, the missing and altered records Cahalan uncovered, and the study's sweeping impact on psychiatric diagnosis.
