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Why was Rosenhan's study on psychiatric hospitals significant?

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Why was Rosenhan's study on psychiatric hospitals significant?

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It demonstrated the potentially harmful effects of diagnostic labels and raised questions about the reliability and validity of psychiatric diagnosis.

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