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Between 1968 and 1972, David Rosenhan, professor in psychiatry at Stanford University, conducted an experiment. Rosenhan wondered if there was really such a thing as a state of sanity and one of insanity, and if they did exist, how one would tell the
The patient as ‘high potential’
Online co-creating is everywhere. Wikipedia, the free internet encyclopedia, was started in 2001. Ten years later it contained 17.000.000 articles in 287 languages. Wikipedia had five employees on their payroll. The secret of success of Wikipedia are
Harnessing the shameless internet
Hatemails, the online exchange of child pornography, facebook updates with pictures of yourself being drunk, websites where people get bashed or blackmailed because they undressed themselves in front of a webcam or for no reason at all. The internet
Ordinary people
I used to work as a nurse at the oncology ward. Since most of my patients suffered from metastatic cancer, healing was no longer an option. Most people came for chemotherapy to slow down the disease. Some participated in a drug study. There were also
Pick yourself up…
It was on a website for patients with mental disorders that I found this song. Members of de site said this song has been an inspiration for them. Normally this song wouldn’t get my heart pumping. But recently the words: “You pick yourself up
Care for a game?
Loneliness is one of the big issues in elderly care, partly due big societal changes. 50 years ago most people died less than 15 kilometer from the place that they were born. This meant that families for the most part lived close together and had fre
How pink bikes can change your day
Sometimes you just have one of those days…The weather is good, people are nice, the train is on time, but my mood stays below 6 degrees. With little enthusiasm I open my inbox at work. Full, again. This is quite depressing because only two da
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