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The Rosenhan Experiment: When Sanity Went Undercover

16/01/2026 · by · in neuropsychiatry · Leave a comment

Picture this: It’s 1973, a time when bell-bottoms ruled the streets and psychiatry was still cloaked in mystery. David Rosenhan, a sharp-minded psychologist from Stanford University, had a burning question gnawing at him: Can psychiatrists really tell the difference between the sane and the insane? He wasn’t content with armchair theories. No, Rosenhan decided to […]