ENGL 449 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: The Possession
Document Summary
Being sane in insane places by: david l. rosenhan: not the rst to sneak" into an insane asylum. Well-intentioned and good-intention sta ed: their expertise is being called into question. Life instances are contextual in the asylum: looking for problems, working a story into a tting script. The patient"s and their speech should be as important as the doctor"s voices. Language of other-ization: dividing the sane from the insane . Labels and words stick: the psychiatrists are conjuring disease. Problems with the study: the pseudo patient does report to have hallucination. The doctors take the test subject"s words. Why would the doctor assume they were lying. Ann yale hopkins is mad because she reads and writes too much: has forgotten her household chores. She is not ful lling the role that god gave her: this is where her madness resides. She lives in a public sphere: more dangerous.
