SANE OR INSANE.

On being sane in insane places.

It is clear that we cannot distinguish the sane from the insane in psychiatric hospitals. The hospital itself imposes a special environment in which the meanings of behavior can easily be misunderstood. The consequences to patients hospitalized in such an environment-the powerlessness, depersonalization, segregation, mortification, and self-labeling-seem undoubtedly countertherapeutic. I do not...

A Comparison between the Mental Processes in the Sane and in the Insane

mind and not of the body. From that time to the present day the opinion has gradually spread that many disorders of mentality can be explained satisfactorily without any reference to processes occurring in the brain by the employment of scientific law which involve psychological terms only. The most considerable additions and amplifications to Charcot's original observations have been made by J...

On pseudoscience in science, logic in remission, and psychiatric diagnosis: a critique of Rosenhan's "On being sane in insane places".

Rosenhan's "On Being Sane in Insane Places" is pseudoscience presented as science. Just as his pseudopatients were diagnosed at discharge as "schizophrenia in remission," so a careful examination of this study's methods, results, and conclusion leads to a diagnosis of "logic in remission." Rosenhan's study proves that pseudopatients are not detected by psychiatrists as having simulated signs of...

Sanjay Sane

Sanjay Sane is an Associate Professor at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Bangalore, India. He has a bachelor’s degree in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics from St. Stephen’s College in University of Delhi, and a Master’s degree in Physics from the University of Poona in Pune, India. His doctoral work at University of California, Berkeley i...

Insane Delusions