{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"The Fraud that Transformed Psychiatry","description":" In 1973 a bombshell study appeared in the premier scientific journal Science. It was called \u201cOn Being Sane in Insane Places.\u201d Its author, a Stanford psychology professor named David Rosenhan, claimed that by faking their way into psychiatric hospitals, he and eight other pseudo-patients had proven that psychiatrists were unable to diagnose mental illness accurately. Psychiatrists panicked, and, as a result, re-wrote what\u2019s known as \u201cpsychiatry\u2019s bible\u201d\u2014the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM. The study and the subsequent overhaul of the DSM changed the field forever. So it was a surprise when, decades later, a journalist reopened Rosenhan\u2019s files and discovered that the study was full of inconsistencies and even blatant fraud. So should we throw out everything it revealed? Or can something based on a lie still contain any truths? Credits Host: Alexis Pedrick Senior Producer: Mariel Carr Producer: Rigoberto Hernandez Associate Producer: Sarah Kaplan Audio Engineer: Jonathan Pfeffer \u201cColor Theme\u201d composed by Jonathan Pfeffer. Additional music by Blue Dot Sessions   ","author_name":"Distillations | Science History Institute","author_url":"https:\/\/www.sciencehistory.org\/stories\/distillations-pod\/","html":"