During his classic study, Rosenhan (1973) observed that hospital staff routinely reinterpreted benign, everyday actions of pseudo-patients to align with their diagnostic labels.
With reference to this key research, discuss how the 'stickiness of labels' leads to the pathologisation of normal behavior, and explain how this challenges the validity of clinical diagnosis in a historical context.
36 exam-style questions on OCR A Level Psychology The historical context of mental health. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.