This clip shows how the Rosenhan experiment undermined American Psychiatry and how the Psychiatric establishment tried to find an objective way to measure mental illness, by using objective methods like computers and checklists. These new diagnostic techniques intentionally measured only surface symptoms and asked nothing about the patients life or environment. From these techniques came mental diseases that we all know today like Attention deficit disorder (ADD) and Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD).
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The Birth of modern Psychiatry: Part 2 of 4
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