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Chapter 3 Summary Of Chapter Three By David Slater

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Chapter Three Summary Slater introduces chapter three with telling us that David Rosenhan was greatly ill towards the end of his life. Slater later tells us that Rosenhan and eight of his friends fake they’re way into different mental hospitals just by saying “I’m hearing things”. In fact, Slater wanted to see how the psychiatrist can see the sane from insane. Later, Robert Spitzer gave Rosenhan rude criticism about his experiment. In addition, Rosenhan took a mental test which came out normal but the doctors diagnosed him with schizophrenia. Unfortunately, the patients at the mental hospital knew Rosenhan was faking his illness. On the other hand, Rosenhan and Jacobson did an experiment by testing grades first through sixth on a IQ test,

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