Just how insane or sane is sanity? Is it possible to tell a sane person from someone that is insane? How is it that one psychiatrist can testify that a person is insane, while another equally qualified one argues that they are sane? Obviously, notions of normality are not as accurate as the general populous would believe. In fact, psychological categorization of mental illnesses has been said to be useless at best and harmful at its worst. One experiment set out to find out just how accurate these categorizations are. The experiment involved sending eight pseudopatients into twelve various hospitals. Out of the eight patients, one was in his twenties, while the other seven were older and consider
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