For some of these, subjective decisions required
In the DSM criteria, one of the characteristic symptoms are "if delusions are bizarre" but what one clinician thinks is bizarre can differ to another- it is subjective and therefore leads to different decisions being made-lack of reliability
Rosenhan: 1973
Aim-distinguish whether staff in psych hospitals could distinguish between normal and abonormal mental states
1: Eight normal ppl went to admission departemnts claiming they could hear voices-7 were admitted w diagnosis of Sz-nobody recgonised
2:Hospital warned some pseudopatients would be admitted-none were-but 10% of real patients were suspected of being fakes
-They cannot reliably tell the difference
-peudopatients felt powerless and everything was a 'symptom'-diagnosis is a self fulfillinf prohecy
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