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The Great Pretender - The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness (Paperback) Loot Price: R508
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The Great Pretender - The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness (Paperback): Susannah Cahalan

The Great Pretender - The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness (Paperback)

Susannah Cahalan

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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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Imprint: Grand Central Publishing
Country of origin: United States
Release date: July 2020
Authors: Susannah Cahalan
Dimensions: 201 x 132 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 978-1-5387-1527-7
Categories: Books > Fiction > True stories > Crime
Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Abnormal psychology
Books > Medicine > General issues > History of medicine
Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Psychiatry
Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > History of science
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > General
Books > Medicine > General issues > Health systems & services > Mental health services
Books > History > History of specific subjects > General
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LSN: 1-5387-1527-9
Barcode: 9781538715277

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