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Does mental illness actually exist

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Some say that the diagnosis of schizophrenia is a violent act perpetrated by the medical community or others believe there’s no such thing as mental illness

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What is the defense of Classification

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That all patients have attributes at three levels those shared with all psychiatric patients those shared with only some other psychiatric patients those that are unique to them

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3
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Was Rosenhan an experiment

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not an experiment even though there were independent burbles independent variables

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4
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Is there a cause and effect relationship

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no because there’s only one condition

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5
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Why is the sample difficult

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because you don’t know if the fake patients or the hospitals are the sample?

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Why isn’t this experiment generalizable

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the sample of the hospitals are not generalizable to all hospitals

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7
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What is the quality of the data for the clinic

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Pseudo Patients noted recollections of what happened could be subjective

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