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In 1973, eight perfectly sane people had themselves committed to psychiatric hospitals to see if the doctors could tell, and what happened next humiliated an entire profession and changed psychiatry forever. - Space Daily

Published by Space Daily 31 July 2026 at 16:05
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In 1973, eight perfectly sane people had themselves committed to psychiatric hospitals to see if the doctors could tell, and what happened next humiliated an entire profession and changed psychiatry forever. - Space Daily
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When a psychologist's fake patients fooled psychiatrists into diagnoses of mental illness, it exposed how little doctors actually understood about the mind.

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