The Great Pretender : The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness Hardback
by Susannah Cahalan
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Shortlisted for the 2020 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize
Named a Best Book of 2020 by The Guardian * The Telegraph * The Times
One of Americas most courageous young journalists and the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir Brain on Fire investigates the shocking mystery behind the dramatic experiment that revolutionized modern medicine in this international bestseller (NPR).
Doctors have struggled for centuries to define insanity--how do you diagnose it, how do you treat it, how do you even know what it is? In search of an answer, in the 1970s a Stanford psychologist named David Rosenhan and seven other people--sane, healthy, well-adjusted members of society--went undercover into asylums around America to test the legitimacy of psychiatrys labels. Forced to remain inside until theyd proven themselves sane, all eight emerged with alarming diagnoses and even more troubling stories of their treatment. Rosenhans watershed study broke open the field of psychiatry, closing down institutions and changing mental health diagnosis forever.
But, as Cahalans explosive new research shows in this real-life detective story, very little in this saga is exactly as it seems. What really happened behind those closed asylum doors?
Named a Best Book of 2020 by The Guardian * The Telegraph * The Times
One of Americas most courageous young journalists and the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir Brain on Fire investigates the shocking mystery behind the dramatic experiment that revolutionized modern medicine in this international bestseller (NPR).
Doctors have struggled for centuries to define insanity--how do you diagnose it, how do you treat it, how do you even know what it is? In search of an answer, in the 1970s a Stanford psychologist named David Rosenhan and seven other people--sane, healthy, well-adjusted members of society--went undercover into asylums around America to test the legitimacy of psychiatrys labels. Forced to remain inside until theyd proven themselves sane, all eight emerged with alarming diagnoses and even more troubling stories of their treatment. Rosenhans watershed study broke open the field of psychiatry, closing down institutions and changing mental health diagnosis forever.
But, as Cahalans explosive new research shows in this real-life detective story, very little in this saga is exactly as it seems. What really happened behind those closed asylum doors?
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- Pages:400 pages
- Publisher:Grand Central Publishing
- Publication Date:05/11/2019
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- Publication Date:05/11/2019
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