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The Great Pretender
by Susannah Cahalan
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New York, NY: Grand Central Publishing (Nov 5, 2019)
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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 untold history of the shocking 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 and 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 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, very little in this saga is exactly as it seems. What really happened behind those closed asylum doors, and 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
, and other publications. She lives in Brooklyn.
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