study 3

• aim of rosenhan?

  to investigate patient- staff contact
• procedure of rosenhan?

  4 hospitals, pp approached member of staff and asked 'could you tell me when am I eligible for ground privileges'. done as normally as possible and avoided asking same staff once a day.

  • compared responses given to patients with student at Stanford University when asking for help on campus.
• results of rosenhan?

  • stopped and talked: faculty at uni campus 100%, nurses stopped 0.5%.
• conclusion of rosenhan?

  psychiatric patients are treated differently to non-psychiatric patients. patients are powerless and lack of eye contact (23%) depersonalises them