Chapter 3
Summary
This chapter relates the experiences of Dr. Rosenhan while running an experiment to fake a mental illness in order to be admitted to a psychiatric ward. The author then repeated this experiment her self, and relates her own experiences. In contrast to Dr. Rosenhan's results, Slater was unable to convince psychiatrists that she should be admitted to a ward, however she was prescribed several medications, including anti-psychosis drugs.
Discussion
While this chapter was interesting, I can't help but feeling like Dr. Rosenhan's experiment was just some sort of silly bet with some friends. Following some google research, it appears that there are also some doubts that Slater actually preformed the experiment that she has never addressed. This also brought up some other points regarding the accuracy of previous chapters in the book (especially the first). All things considered, I am much less impressed with the author following this chapter.
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