The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness
By Susannah Cahalan
Read by Susannah Cahalan  and Christine Moreau
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"One of America's 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 (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 psychiatry's labels. Forced to remain inside until they'd "proven" themselves sane, all eight emerged with alarming diagnoses and even more troubling stories of their treatment. Rosenhan's watershed study broke open the field of psychiatry, closing down institutions and changing mental health diagnosis forever. But, as Cahalan's 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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Summary
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A Time Magazine Book of the Year for 2019
An O Magazine Pick of the Month
A New York Times Pick of the Month
A Washington Post Pick of the Month
A San Francisco Chronicle Top Shelf Pick for November
A Houston Chronicle Pick of the Month
A Kirkus Reviews Pick of 23 Best Reads for Book Clubs
A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice of Best Books Now in Paperback
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 psychiatry's labels. Forced to remain inside until they'd "proven" themselves sane, all eight emerged with alarming diagnoses and even more troubling stories of their treatment. Rosenhan's watershed study broke open the field of psychiatry, closing down institutions and changing mental health diagnosis forever.
But, as Cahalan's 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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Available Formats : | Digital Download, CD |
Category: | Nonfiction/Social Science |
Runtime: | 11.07 |
Audience: | Adult |
Language: | English |
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