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The Rosenhan Experiment and its Controversies
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The Rosenhan Experiment revealed issues within the institutionalization system and the possibility of deceiving doctors, but some members of the psychiatric and psychological communities do not consider it a valid study.
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The Penrose Hypothesis suggests that the decrease in psychiatric hospitals in the US is linked to the increase of mentally ill people in prison and unhoused.
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The Penrose Hypothesis suggests that the decrease in psychiatric hospitals in the US is linked to the increase of mentally ill people in prison and unhoused. Statistics from the 1880s to 2005 demonstrate that the percentage of mentally ill people in prison increased from less than 1% to 21%, and there was a significant rise in the US unhoused population from 100,000 in 1980 to 400,000 in 1988.
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The DSM diagnoses are under scrutiny as a system based on a consensus about clusters of clinical symptoms and not any objective laboratory measure.
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The DSM diagnoses are under scrutiny as a system based on a consensus about clusters of clinical symptoms and not any objective laboratory measure. It faces a turf war from neuroscientists who claim that it's brain-based, and a lot of people regard it as bunk.