On Being Sane In Insane Places Analysis

Reducing the Sane in Insane Places When it comes to the chapter, “On Being Sane in Insane Places,” David Rosenhan went out to discover how easy it was for someone sane to deceive a psychiatrist in order to be admitted in a mental institution. Most of us would readily agree that Rosenhan’s pseudopatient experiment revealed a major flaw in mental institutions’ system. Where this agreement usually ends, however, is on the question of does this flaw provides evidence that psychiatry it an invalidity profession. Whereas some are convinced that psychiatry is a valid profession and knowledgeable to determine the sane from the insane, others maintain that psychiatry carries too many errors to be consider a valid profession. In my view, psychiatry is a valid profession but carries humanly mistakes. Plus, psychiatrists must take time and consider …show more content…
Let’s consider Rosenhan’s pseudopatient experiment once again and apply the key components of psychology to his chief complaint; keep in mind that Rosenhan only fabricated the voice in his head and everything else was normal and factual. Thud is defined as a sound made when someone or something falls. It’s common senses that there can be many causes to why someone could be hearing a voice that said “thud”. The possible concepts for the cause of the complaint are emotional problem, lack of sleep, form of depression, wants attention, psychosis, schizophrenia, and so on. Elimination of the majority of the possible causes would have been determined because there were no other symptoms and patient can function normally. Rosenhan’s possible diagnosis: wants attention or diagnosis not determined. Clearly, if the psychiatrists had taken into account other possible factors to Rosenhan’s chief complaint, hearing a voice that said “thud,” their conclusion would have been different and admission into an asylum would not have been an