It seemed like a majority of patients were given that diagnosis, even if they truly were not. This led Rosenhan to do his experiment on psychiatrists in mental hospitals. After his stay in the hospital he was diagnosed with his disease in remission. Rosenhan found that the psychiatrists were improperly diagnosing patients most likely because they did not truly know what was going on with there patients and it was easier to give them a basic diagnosis such as disease in remission so it wouldn’t seem as if they really had no clue. It’s possible that at that time psychiatrist were feeling a bit overwhelmed with mass influx of patients coming to them that it was easier to diagnose them all with the same diagnosis and hospitalize them. That technique could lead to bigger problems. If a perfectly sane person with mild depression was placed into a mental hospital then they have a greater risk of becoming insane themselves due to the long exposure to that environment. That environment can’t be good for anyone’s state of mind. It saddens me to think that a majority of the patients in those hospitals were being misdiagnosed and weren’t being given the proper treatment to help them
It seemed like a majority of patients were given that diagnosis, even if they truly were not. This led Rosenhan to do his experiment on psychiatrists in mental hospitals. After his stay in the hospital he was diagnosed with his disease in remission. Rosenhan found that the psychiatrists were improperly diagnosing patients most likely because they did not truly know what was going on with there patients and it was easier to give them a basic diagnosis such as disease in remission so it wouldn’t seem as if they really had no clue. It’s possible that at that time psychiatrist were feeling a bit overwhelmed with mass influx of patients coming to them that it was easier to diagnose them all with the same diagnosis and hospitalize them. That technique could lead to bigger problems. If a perfectly sane person with mild depression was placed into a mental hospital then they have a greater risk of becoming insane themselves due to the long exposure to that environment. That environment can’t be good for anyone’s state of mind. It saddens me to think that a majority of the patients in those hospitals were being misdiagnosed and weren’t being given the proper treatment to help them