Psychology In Rosenhan's Sane In Insane Places
In this chapter of the book “Sane in insane places” “Lauren Slater, Opening Skinner’s Box” David Rosenhan totally exploited the way doctors diagnosed patients and how patients were treated as almost convicts in mental hospitals. He also proved using psychology is not a consistent way of diagnosing patients with loads of pills most patients didn't need. Also how the same experiment Rosenhan came up with was repeated years later but was due to the fact doctors weren't giving thorough examinations. I agree with the idea that psychology isn’t a good way of diagnosing pseudopatients in medical hospitals because they cannot correctly determine with what is wrong with the patient in need. The way Rosenhan was able to prove that psychology