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The Great Pretender: Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness in Franklin, TN
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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
"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 insanityhow 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 peoplesane, healthy, well-adjusted members of societywent 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?
Named a Best Book of 2020 by
The Guardian * The Telegraph
"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 insanityhow 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 peoplesane, healthy, well-adjusted members of societywent 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?
Shortlisted for the 2020 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize
Named a Best Book of 2020 by
The Guardian * The Telegraph
"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 insanityhow 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 peoplesane, healthy, well-adjusted members of societywent 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?
Named a Best Book of 2020 by
The Guardian * The Telegraph
"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 insanityhow 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 peoplesane, healthy, well-adjusted members of societywent 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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