PSYC 100 Chapter 1: Rosenhan & Satz Reading
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We may be personally convinced that we can tell the normal from the abnormal. Murder trial: both the prosecution and defendant has reasoning to why the criminal is insane or not insane. Diff uses to: sanity, insanity, mental illness, schizophrenia. Normality & abnormality are not universal diff in diff cultures. Patients present symptoms symptoms are categorized thus sane vs insane. Recently found that categorization of mental illness is harmful. Sane individual can be distinguished from the insane context in which he is found. 8 sane ppl gained secret admission to 12 diff hospitals. Their experiences are documented in this article. Those who were in mental health professions had new fake jobs. 12 hospitals in 5 diff states on the east & west coasts. Some old, some new, good staff to patient ratios, others were understaffed. He said he was hearing empty voices and the voices were the same gender meaningless of one"s life.
