[CobrastanJorji]

Honestly I think mental health places should regularly experience "fake" patients. It's good for the students, but more importantly, I suspect that the Rosenhan experiment would go about the same today as it went in 1973.

If you haven't read about it, it was kind of amazing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenhan_experiment

Basically a psychologist and his team got themselves admitted to 12 different hospitals by claiming auditory hallucinations. From that point on, they acted completely normal and claimed they no longer experienced any symptoms. The hospitals diagnosed nearly all of them with schizophrenia.

In the aftermath, one hospital demanded to be re-evaluated. The psychologist agreed. Over the next few weeks, the hospital found dozens of fake patients, despite the psychologist sending none at all.

[Clewza313]

Except that it's quite unclear if the experiment ever happened. Only one of the "pseudopatients" could be tracked down afterwards, and his recollection of the experiment differs markedly from Rosenhan's.

[lmm]

All the more reason to repeat the experiment regularly in an organised way.