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The Rosenhan Experiment
In 1969 an American psychologist called David Rosenhan put psychiatrists to the test.
He and several volunteers had themselves admitted to psychiatric hospitals, although they were perfectly sane.
They then waited for the doctors to notice their normal behaviour.
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