Rachel SOCI1160 3/26/2014 On Being Sane in Insane Places Have you ever been in a confrontation with someone where they ended with calling you a lunatic‚ crazy‚ or insane? It does not feel too great. But at least you know you are sane‚ and to everyone else around you‚ you seem "normal." Can you walk down the street and visibly see a difference between a sane and insane person? There are some people however that are permanently labelled as "abnormal" or "insane." These people are diagnosed
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The case study done by D.L. Rosenhan was designed to decipher between those who are sane and those who are insane‚ or in proper terms‚ determine abnormal vs. normal behavior. Rosenhan also observes how a patient is treated by others once they are labeled mentally ill and how that treatment effects their diagnosis. To classify one’s behavior‚ psychiatrists and psychologists came up with a continuum. The criteria for determining abnormal vs. normal behavior is as follows: “Context of the Behavior”
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distinguished from insanity. Rosenhan wanted to determine if the diagnoses of some sort of mental illness came from the patients themselves or did the environment produce the diagnoses. The prevailing thought at the time was that sanity and insanity are easily distinguishable. The psychological symptoms of patients could be simply categorized which supported the idea of such a belief. The goal of the study was to test the idea whether sanity could be recognized. Rosenhan believed if the sanity of the
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Outline and evaluate the biological approach to abnormality The biological model compares abnormal behaviour with a disease. It assumes that all mental illnesses have a physiological cause related to the physical structure and brain. Doctors diagnose mental illness using well-established criteria. Psychiatrists also use diagnostic manuals for mental illness and compare symptoms with set classifications of illnesses. According to the biological model‚ mental illness is caused by one or more of the
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abnormal. A limitation of this is that everyone has done one of those things at least once in your life‚ does that mean that you’re failing to function adequately? Therefore the its inaccurate‚ there are no boundaries for diagnosis this is supported by Rosenhan 1973 who shows that psychiatric classification can be
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abnormal behaviour and the medical module was seen as the most accepted way of doing so. This approach has used the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) to classify this behaviour. The study conducted by the psychologist David Rosenhan (1973) ‘On being sane in insane places’‚ came as a critic to the medical mode. The aim of this study was to find out whether psychiatrists could distinguish between those who were mentally sane and those who were not. Other more recent studies have
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David L. Rosenhan‚ a Stanford University professor‚ called the Rosenhan Study: On Being Sane in Insane Places‚ studies the actions of how one was to be determined insane. 12 people who were sane were put into mental institutes‚ diagnosed with schizophrenia‚ and were there for 7-52 days. It was brought up in the study how one patient recognized that one of the pseudopatients was sane and that they were some kind of journalist while the rest of the staff didn’t see them as sane. Rosenhan mentions this
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Lauren Mena Prof. Wexler Comp II October 15‚ 2012 D.L. Rosenhan explains in his essay‚ ``On Being Sane in Insane Places’’ that society labels people permanently for some things that occur rarely. Rosenhan clarifies in this essay that patients who are considered ``schizophrenic‚’’ and ``insane’’ aren’t truly schizophrenic or insane for the rest of their lives. There was an experiment conducted with eight sane people who explored twelve different psychiatric institutions across the United
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Labelling bias occurs in everyday society. For example‚ within mental illness (Rosenhan‚ 1973). Evidence show that‚ labelling bias is putting‚ or forcing a unique individual in a specific group‚ and the assumptions others may have of that label (Fox & Stinnett‚ 1996). Labels are evocative‚ whether they are for the better‚ or for the worse. This goes to show that label bias are‚ too narrow and very limited of a conception to really define an individual. According to Rolision and Medway (1985) there
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Describe and evaluate psychological definitions of abnormal behavior According to the science of psychology one’s behavior needs to follow a certain criteria in order to be deemed “normal”. If one’s behavior does not match the criteria‚ their behavior is seen as undesirable and wrong (requires change). For this physiologists need to be able to view a person’s behavior and be able to tell the difference between normal and abnormal. Whilst defining the “normality” of ones behavior physiologists
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