Since the 1960s, state funded mental institutions have always been less of a concern to the people. After a few studies and the discover of human rights abuse and mass cruelty, state funded mental institutions have changed their methods drastically throughout the years.
The various types of abuse that the patients had to endure through were horrifying. Misdiagnosis such as deafness was considered retardation, and the psychiatric would sentence them into the institutions without considering a second option or opinion. The facilities would often intentionally over prescribe pills, and practically overdose their patients. The patients had no rights to refuse what was giving to them. If the patients decided to argue with the workers, they would …show more content…
The Rosenhan study “On being sane in insane places” is what finally opened the eyes of the public to the harsh realities of the insinuations. In the study, eight “pesudopatients” (colleagues of Roshenhan), which consisted of three psychologists, a pediatrician, a psychiatrist, a painter and a housewife, admitted themselves into a mental institution saying that they were hearing voices such as “empty”, “hallow” and “thud”. Roshenhan studied cases that found no “sane” patients saying that they heard those voices. The facility then did not know what they had and diagnosed them as schizophrenia, except one which was diagnosed with manic-depressive disorder, which now-a-days is known as bipolar disorder. The pesudopatients were tasked on keeping journals of everyday cruelties and treatments. Overall their human rights were completely taken away. Nurses would change in front of the patients as if they were not there, workers would beat patients if they urinated themselves, and did not even make certain that the patients were taking their medication. Several months have passed by and the workers were never able to distinguish the pesudopatients from the “insane” ones. It was only until Roshenhan announced the study that the pesudopatients were released from the insinuations. From these results, Roshenhan believed that doctors can not actually diagnose mental …show more content…
According to Erving Goffman, “We play different parts determined by the situations we take ourselves to be in”. Goffman conducted a study called “Asylums” in 1956, which he poses as a pseudo-employee of St. Elizabeths Hospital for a year, an assistant of the athletic director, and collected data on selected aspects of patients’ social life. He, like in Roshenhan studies, found harsh treatments of the patients. He also found that the patients shared similar social characteristics to that of normal people. They had group mentality and shared information with one another. For example, they told each other to pee in the radiator to avoid beatings from the worker if they soiled
The various types of abuse that the patients had to endure through were horrifying. Misdiagnosis such as deafness was considered retardation, and the psychiatric would sentence them into the institutions without considering a second option or opinion. The facilities would often intentionally over prescribe pills, and practically overdose their patients. The patients had no rights to refuse what was giving to them. If the patients decided to argue with the workers, they would …show more content…
The Rosenhan study “On being sane in insane places” is what finally opened the eyes of the public to the harsh realities of the insinuations. In the study, eight “pesudopatients” (colleagues of Roshenhan), which consisted of three psychologists, a pediatrician, a psychiatrist, a painter and a housewife, admitted themselves into a mental institution saying that they were hearing voices such as “empty”, “hallow” and “thud”. Roshenhan studied cases that found no “sane” patients saying that they heard those voices. The facility then did not know what they had and diagnosed them as schizophrenia, except one which was diagnosed with manic-depressive disorder, which now-a-days is known as bipolar disorder. The pesudopatients were tasked on keeping journals of everyday cruelties and treatments. Overall their human rights were completely taken away. Nurses would change in front of the patients as if they were not there, workers would beat patients if they urinated themselves, and did not even make certain that the patients were taking their medication. Several months have passed by and the workers were never able to distinguish the pesudopatients from the “insane” ones. It was only until Roshenhan announced the study that the pesudopatients were released from the insinuations. From these results, Roshenhan believed that doctors can not actually diagnose mental …show more content…
According to Erving Goffman, “We play different parts determined by the situations we take ourselves to be in”. Goffman conducted a study called “Asylums” in 1956, which he poses as a pseudo-employee of St. Elizabeths Hospital for a year, an assistant of the athletic director, and collected data on selected aspects of patients’ social life. He, like in Roshenhan studies, found harsh treatments of the patients. He also found that the patients shared similar social characteristics to that of normal people. They had group mentality and shared information with one another. For example, they told each other to pee in the radiator to avoid beatings from the worker if they soiled