PSY 301 Lecture Notes - Erich Fromm, David Rosenhan, True Life
20 Aug 2013
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New york times have a study where they use psychology to get people to vote. Republicans have made it more difficult for the people who weren"t planning to vote to vote. The more concrete the plan, the more likely you"re able to execute it. It all depends on the time and place, if someone is seen insane or not. He had a bunch of collaborators and went to a huge range of mental hospitals across the country: some in rural, in cities, etc. They all went and complained of an auditory hallucination: claimed to be hearing either ahollo, dow and thud, they gave a true life story. Yes they were all admitted to the psychiatric wards. Nobody noticed except the people who were actually insane. Had to say they were insane in order to be let out. In the 50s, diagnostic and statistical manual (dsm): Broke mental illnesses into 2 classifications minor ones and major disorders.
