re: [tips] Long before Rosenhan

2010-03-22 Thread Mike Palij
On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 17:42:29 -0700, Christopher D. Green wrote: >Since we've been discussing Rosenhan, I thought that this might interest >some of you. More than eight decades before Rosenhan sent his student to >mental hospitals pretending to be mad, a reporter for the /New York >World/ who wen

Re: [tips] Long before Rosenhan

2010-03-21 Thread William Scott
What would be the outcome of someone now sending "pseudodeppressives" into primary care offices with complaints of being "unhappy" and "sad" and "having trouble sleeping" in order to see how many were diagnosed with mood disorder and given a presciption for antidepressants. I can predict that most

[tips] Long before Rosenhan

2010-03-21 Thread Christopher D. Green
Since we've been discussing Rosenhan, I thought that this might interest some of you. More than eight decades before Rosenhan sent his student to mental hospitals pretending to be mad, a reporter for the /New York World/ who went by the pen name of Nellie Bly, feigned insanity in order to gain