The Fraud That Transformed Psychiatry Series, Transcript P18
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July 23, 2024
Source: The Scince History Institute
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Host: Alexis Pedrick
Senior Producer: Mariel Carr
Producer: Rigoberto Hernandez
Associate Producer: Sarah Kaplan
Audio Engineer: Jonathan Pfeffer
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Psychology professor David Rosenhan made waves with his “On Being Sane in Insane Places” study, but decades later its legitimacy was questioned.
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Transcript
Alexis Pedrick: But Susannah found something else kind of shocking in the files.
Susannah Cahalan: Spitzer had the smoking gun.
Alexis Pedrick: Spitzer had Rosenhan’s real medical record the whole time. The one that said he wore a copper pot to drown out the audio hallucinations. The one that said he was suicidal. And Susannah knows this because she found letters between Spitzer and Rosenhan.
Susannah Cahalan: The vitriolic back and forth.
Alexis Pedrick: Where Spitzer let him know he had it. When “On Being Sane in Insane Places” was published, the psychiatrist from Haverford State Hospital who treated David Rosenhan was so outraged by the fake medical report that he leaked the real one to Robert Spitzer.
Susannah Cahalan: And in fact, Rosenhan was so scared when he heard that he had that. He was getting very upset in this correspondence.
Alexis Pedrick: It was such a crucial piece of evidence for Robert Spitzer.
Susannah Cahalan: He hated this study so much. He had conferences about it, but he had the one document that would just completely destroy the paper. But Spitzer put that medical record away and never discussed it publicly.
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