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The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness
Susannah Cahalan
Named a Best Book of 2020 by The Guardian * - The Telegraph
"One of America's most courageous young journalists" & 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 (NPR).
For centuries, doctors have struggled to define mental illness--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 & seven other people--sane, normal, well-adjusted members of society--went undercover into asylums around America to test the legitimacy of psychiatry's labels. Forced to remain inside until they'd "proven" themselves sane, all eight emerged with alarming diagnoses & even more troubling stories of their treatment. Rosenhan's watershed study broke open the field of psychiatry, closing down institutions & changing mental health diagnosis forever.
But, as Cahalan's explosive new research shows, very little in this saga is exactly as it seems. What really happened behind those closed asylum doors, & what does it mean for our understanding of mental illness today?
Susannah Cahalan is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, a memoir about her struggle with a rare autoimmune disease of the brain. She writes for the New York Post. Her work has also been featured in the New York Times, Scientific American Magazine, Glamour, Psychology Today, & other publications. She lives in Brooklyn.
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