Article ID: CBB621268456

Rosenhan revisited: successful scientific fraud (2023)

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Scull, Andrew T. (Author)


History of Psychiatry
Volume: 34
Issue: 2
Pages: 180-195
Publication date: 2023
Language: English


The publication of David Rosenhan’s ‘On being sane in insane places’ in Science in 1973 played a crucial role in persuading the American Psychiatric Association to revise its diagnostic manual. The third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III) in its turn launched a revolution in American psychiatry whose reverberations continue to this day. Rosenhan’s paper continues to be cited hundreds of times a year, and its alleged findings are seen as crucial evidence of psychiatry’s failings. Yet based on the findings of an investigative journalist, Susannah Cahalan, and on records she shared with the author, we now know that this research is a spectacularly successful case of scientific fraud.

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Authors & Contributors
Cooper, Rachel
Godderis, Rebecca
Hirshbein, Laura Davidow
Horwitz, Allan V.
Didier, Emmanuel
Leys, Ruth
Journals
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
History of Psychiatry
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
History of Psychology
History of the Human Sciences
Publishers
Grand Central Publishing
Harvard University Press
Johns Hopkins University Press
Springer
Concepts
Psychiatry
Mental disorders and diseases
Nosology; classification of diseases
Philosophy of medicine
Scientific misconduct; fraud in science
Diagnosis
People
Hempel, Carl G.
Discussion, roundtable
Rosenhan, David
Ivan Oransky
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
Places
United States
Europe
Boston (Massachusetts, U.S.)
Institutions
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)
American Psychiatric Association
University of Michigan
World Health Organization (WHO)
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