Rosenhan revisited: The scientific credibility of Lauren Slater's pseudopatient diagnosis study

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 193, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 734-739

  Spitzer, Robert L ^a,d   Lilienfeld, Scott O ^b   Miller, Michael B ^c  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Psychiatric diagnosis; Rosenhan; Slater

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY HALLUCINATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DEPRESSIVE PSYCHOSIS; EMERGENCY WARD; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MALINGERING; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCRIPTION; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGIST; PUBLICATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SYMPTOM; THEORY;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BOOKS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EMERGENCY SERVICES, PSYCHIATRIC; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PEER REVIEW; PHYSICIANS; PRESCRIPTIONS, DRUG; PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS; PUBLISHING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 27744475689     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.nmd.0000185992.16053.5c     Document Type: Article

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