PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTIONS

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THE PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTIONS

STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
In a study by David Rosenhan (1973), researchers were admitted as patients into various mental hospitals after they falsely claimed to be “hearing voices.” This study best illustrated the negative effects of
A
psychoanalytic theory
B
hallucinations
C
diagnostic labels
D
the medical model
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Rosenhan concluded that we cannot reliably distinguish the sane from the insane, and that hospitalisation and labelling can lead to depersonalisation, powerlessness and segregation which are counter-therapeutic.

Detailed explanation-2: -The consequences to patients hospitalized in such an environment-the powerlessness, depersonalization, segregation, mortification, and self-labeling-seem undoubtedly counter-therapeutic.”-Unethical: no consent given by the people working in the hospitals.

Detailed explanation-3: -The most blatant problem with Rosenhan’s study was that his “pseudopatients” were not pseudopatients at all-they were real patients faking real disease. The fact that some patients fake mental illness and are able to deceive the doctors who examine them says nothing about the legitimacy of the illnesses themselves.

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