Anti Psychiatry

Question 1

What is anti-psychiatry

Answer 1

anti-psychiatry means a viewpoint that criticises the medical model and psychiatry

Question 2

Rosenhan part A

Answer 2

Eight normal people went to different hospitals claimant to be hearing voices that would unfamiliar to them but the same gender the voices said words like hollow and thud

Question 3

Rosenhan Part A findings

Answer 3

All 8 admitted, seven diagnosed with schizophrenia and one diagnosed with manic depression
Once admitted they stopped all the behaviours and Kept notes in diary, this was recorded by the staff is writing behaviour
Took 7 to 52 days before they were released

Question 4

Rosenhan Part B

Answer 4

Contacted training hospitals and asked them to identify pseudo patients.
193 patients admitted, all were real
41/193 were judged as definitely imposters by least one member of staff

Question 5

Rosenhan conclusion

Answer 5

We cannot reliably tell the sign from the insane in psychiatric hospitals
Diagnosis is neither valid or reliable
Labelling has a powerful affect in the context of psychiatry
treatment of psychiatric patient in hospital is do you Dehumanising

Question 6

Rosenhan ethical concerns

Answer 6

Staff in either parts did not know they were in study, so they could not give informal consent nor where they are able to exercise the right to withdraw
Patient identified as imposters in part B may have been treated differently by staff thus were not protected from harm

Question 7

Rosenhan criticism

Answer 7

Spritzer- schizophrenia in the remission is a rare diagnosis staff must have realised that the patients in part A were usual
McLeod- Power of labels may only be in the context of old-fashioned psychiatric hospitals

Question 8

2 ways that labelling might negatively effect on a person with an atypical disorder

Answer 8

Maybe treated differently by others

Self- filling prophecy- may become more like the label