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Re:As Suicides Rise, Insurers Find Ways to Deny Mental Healt... by fjsolwmv on Saturday May 18, 2019 @09:07AM (#19947186)
In the US there was an experiment where a bunch of healthy people were sent for a temporary hold and evaluation, and something like half of them were declared insane for refusing to admit they were insane, and trapped until the experimenters intervened.
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Re:As Suicides Rise, Insurers Find Ways to Deny Mental Healt... by ThrowawayR2 on Saturday May 18, 2019 @03:19PM (#19949214)
That's the Rosenhan experiment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenhan_experiment

Rosenhan's paper itself ("On Being Sane In Insane Places") also makes for fascinating reading and is very readable even for laypeople.

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