Clinician David Rosenhan and his colleagues faked schizophrenic symptoms to infiltrate mental hospitals.Once they had been admitted and no longer complained of any fake symptoms,

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The study conducted by David Rosenhan and his colleagues, known as the Rosenhan experiment, found that once the pseudopatients were admitted to the mental hospital and stopped simulating any symptoms, the clinicians did not recognize their normal behavior and continued to interpret their actions as symptoms of mental illness. They were then discharged with a diagnosis of schizophrenia "in remission", which confirmed their initial admitting diagnoses. This suggests that the clinicians were more likely to rely on the stereotypical expectations of what a mental patient would do, rather than on the actual behavior of the patients.

Clinician David Rosenhan and His Colleagues Faked Schizophrenic Symptoms to Infiltrate