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Rosenhan experiment, the Glossary

The Rosenhan experiment or Thud experiment was an experiment regarding the validity of psychiatric diagnosis.^[1]

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1973 in science
Psychiatric false diagnosis

American Psychiatric Association

The American Psychiatric Association (APA) is the main professional organization of psychiatrists and trainee psychiatrists in the United States, and the largest psychiatric organization in the world.

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Andrew Scull

Andrew T. Scull (born 1947) is a British-born sociologist who researches the social history of medicine and the history of psychiatry.

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Anti-psychiatry

Anti-psychiatry, sometimes spelled antipsychiatry, is a movement based on the view that psychiatric treatment is often more damaging than helpful to patients, highlighting controversies about psychiatry.

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Antipsychotic

Antipsychotics, previously known as neuroleptics and major tranquilizers, are a class of psychotropic medication primarily used to manage psychosis (including delusions, hallucinations, paranoia or disordered thought), principally in schizophrenia but also in a range of other psychotic disorders.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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Bipolar disorder

Bipolar disorder, previously known as manic depression, is a mental disorder characterized by periods of depression and periods of abnormally elevated mood that each last from days to weeks.

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David Rosenhan

David L. Rosenhan (November 22, 1929 – February 6, 2012) was an American psychologist. Rosenhan experiment and David Rosenhan are psychiatric false diagnosis.

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Dehumanization

Dehumanization is the denial of full humanity in others along with the cruelty and suffering that accompany it.

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Deinstitutionalisation

Deinstitutionalisation (or deinstitutionalization) is the process of replacing long-stay psychiatric hospitals with less isolated community mental health services for those diagnosed with a mental disorder or developmental disability.

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Existential crisis

Existential crises are inner conflicts characterized by the impression that life lacks meaning and confusion about one's personal identity.

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Health assessment

A health assessment is a plan of care that identifies the specific needs of a person and how those needs will be addressed by the healthcare system or skilled nursing facility.

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History of Psychiatry (journal)

History of Psychiatry is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering psychiatry.

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Horizon (British TV series)

Horizon is an ongoing and long-running British documentary television series on BBC Two that covers science and philosophy.

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Investigative journalism

Investigative journalism is a form of journalism in which reporters deeply investigate a single topic of interest, such as serious crimes, racial injustice, political corruption, or corporate wrongdoing.

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Involuntary commitment

Involuntary commitment, civil commitment, or involuntary hospitalization/hospitalisation is a legal process through which an individual who is deemed by a qualified person to have symptoms of severe mental disorder is detained in a psychiatric hospital (inpatient) where they can be treated involuntarily.

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Journal of Abnormal Psychology

The Journal of Abnormal Psychology (formerly Journal of Abnormal Psychology and Social Psychology and Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology) is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the American Psychological Association (APA).

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Journal of Health and Social Behavior

The Journal of Health and Social Behavior is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by SAGE Publications on behalf of the American Sociological Association.

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Lauren Slater

Lauren Slater (born March 21, 1963) is an American psychotherapist and writer.

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Lunatic asylum

The lunatic asylum, insane asylum or mental asylum was an institution where people with mental illness were confined.

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Maurice K. Temerlin

Maurice K. Temerlin (January 15, 1924 – January 15, 1988), was a psychologist and author.

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Medical diagnosis

Medical diagnosis (abbreviated Dx, Dx, or Ds) is the process of determining which disease or condition explains a person's symptoms and signs.

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Nellie Bly

Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman (born Elizabeth Jane Cochran; May 5, 1864 – January 27, 1922), better known by her pen name Nellie Bly, was an American journalist, who was widely known for her record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days in emulation of Jules Verne's fictional character Phileas Fogg, and an exposé in which she worked undercover to report on a mental institution from within. Rosenhan experiment and Nellie Bly are psychiatric false diagnosis.

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Opening Skinner's Box

Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century (W. W. Norton & Company, 2004), is a book by Lauren Slater.

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Patient abuse

Patient abuse or patient neglect is any action or failure to act which causes unreasonable suffering, misery or harm to the patient. Rosenhan experiment and patient abuse are social problems in medicine.

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Physical abuse

Physical abuse is any intentional act causing injury or trauma to another person or animal by way of bodily contact.

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Psychiatry

Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of deleterious mental conditions.

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Psychologist

A psychologist is a professional who practices psychology and studies mental states, perceptual, cognitive, emotional, and social processes and behavior.

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Psychopathology

Psychopathology is the study of mental illness.

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Psychosis

Psychosis is a condition of the mind or psyche that results in difficulties determining what is real and what is not real.

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R. D. Laing

Ronald David Laing (7 October 1927 – 23 August 1989), usually cited as R. D. Laing, was a Scottish psychiatrist who wrote extensively on mental illnessin particular, psychosis and schizophrenia. Rosenhan experiment and R. D. Laing are anti-psychiatry.

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Robert Spitzer (psychiatrist)

Robert Leopold Spitzer (May 22, 1932 – December 25, 2015) was a psychiatrist and professor of psychiatry at Columbia University in New York City.

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Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by reoccurring episodes of psychosis that are correlated with a general misperception of reality.

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Science (journal)

Science, also widely referred to as Science Magazine, is the peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and one of the world's top academic journals.

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Seymour S. Kety

Seymour S. Kety (August 25, 1915 – May 25, 2000) was an American neuroscientist who was credited with making modern psychiatry a rigorous and heuristic branch of medicine by applying basic science to the study of human behavior in health and disease.

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Susannah Cahalan

Susannah Cahalan (born January 30, 1985) is an American writer and author, known for writing the memoir Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, about her hospitalization with a rare auto-immune disease, anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis.

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Ten Days in a Mad-House

Ten Days in a Mad-House is a book by American journalist Nellie Bly.

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The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease is a peer-reviewed medical journal on psychopathology.

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The Trap (British TV series)

The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom is a BBC television documentary series by English filmmaker Adam Curtis, well known for other documentaries including The Century of the Self and The Power of Nightmares.

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University of California, San Diego

The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego or colloquially, UCSD) is a public land-grant research university in San Diego, California.

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Verbal abuse

Verbal abuse (also known as verbal aggression, verbal attack, verbal violence, verbal assault, psychic aggression, or psychic violence) is a type of psychological/mental abuse that involves the use of oral, gestured, and written language directed to a victim.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenhan_experiment

Also known as Being sane in insane places, On Being Sane in Insane Places, Pseudo patient, Pseudopatient, Rosenhan study, Thud experiment.

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1973 in science

Psychiatric false diagnosis

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