SOCI 213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: David Rosenhan, Substance Abuse, Deinstitutionalisation
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Da(cid:448)id rose(cid:374)ha(cid:374) (cid:894)1973(cid:895): (cid:862)bei(cid:374)g a(cid:374)e i(cid:374) i(cid:374)sa(cid:374)e places(cid:863) His students would go to psychiatrists and say that they were hearing voices. They would then be sent to hospitals and be diagnosed with schizophrenia. Everything they did afterwards would be viewed as a symptom of schizophrenia. Just the fact that they were supposedly hearing voices made the psychiatrists certain that schizophrenia was involved. The minute you are labelled as mentally ill, it sticks to you and it is almost impossible to get out of it. It took them two months to be released from the hospital even though they all never had schizophrenia in the first place. Even after their release, they were considered patients in remissions. So the label is always lurking in the back. This label is so strong that once you are defined as mentally ill, it becomes extremely hard to get rid of it.
