From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!zeppo!whuxlb!rjg
Newsgroups: net.misc
Title: Pretending to be Insane: journal reference
Article-I.D.: whuxlb.345
Posted: Thu Jul 15 21:54:01 1982
Received: Mon Jul 19 04:07:28 1982

The person who led the experiment in which sane people entered
mental hospitals and were considered schizophrenic by all but the
other patients was Dr. David Rosenhan of Stanford University.
The article reporting the work appeared in Science the week of
January 19, 1973. (I know because I looked at my notes from
Rosenhan's Abnormal Psychology course that I took as an undergraduate).
  The demonstration is a sober one: the psychiatric diagnoses are
only labels that are not reliably useful; they only "work" because
they fit with the obvious fact that the people are in a mental
hospital.
  Bob Glushko  Bell Labs Whippany