The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness by Cahalan, Susannah
The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness by Cahalan, Susannah

The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness

Shortlisted for the 2020 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize Named a Best Book of 2020...
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Author: Susannah Cahalan
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The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness by Cahalan, Susannah

The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness

CHF 45.47
The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness by Cahalan, Susannah

The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness

CHF 45.47
Author: Susannah Cahalan
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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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 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 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 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?

Author: Susannah Cahalan
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 11/05/2019
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.34lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.20w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9781538715284


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 06/01/2019 pg. 82
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2019 pg. 25
Booklist 10/01/2019 pg. 7
Library Journal 10/01/2019 pg. 114
Publishers Weekly 09/30/2019
Shelf Awareness 11/08/2019

About the Author
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, and other publications. She lives in Brooklyn.
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