Rosenhan aims and context

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Rosenhan- Context and Aims
- Aims
  - Rosenhan aimed to investigate whether psychiatrists could distinguish between people with mental illness.
  - Personality or situation determines diagnosis.
  - Labelling- behaviour judged in terms of mental illness
Rosenhan was interested in the diagnosis of mental disorders. Is it reliable or valid?
Problems with using DSM IV and ICD 10.
- 2. Legal trails- where prosecution and defence disagree on sanity of the defendant.
- 1. unable to use blood tests to determine mental illness- therefore subjective and open to interpretation.
- 3. the nature of what is normal and abnormal.
1. unable to use blood tests to determine mental illness- therefore subjective and open to interpretation.
Research
- Szasz- suggest there is no objective way to define what is normal and abnormal.
- Mental illness is a myth and only given diagnosis as behaviour does not conform.
  - Anti-psychiatry view

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