The Great Pretender

Product Description 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 PsychiatryS Labels. Forced To Remain Inside Until TheyD Proven Themselves Sane, All Eight Emerged With Alarming Diagnoses And Even More Troubling Stories Of Their Treatment. RosenhanS Watershed Study Broke Open The Field Of Psychiatry, Closing Down Institutions And Changing Mental Health Diagnosis Forever. But, As CahalanS 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? Review People Have Asked Me Over The Years: If They Likedthe Psychopath Test, What Should They Read Next? I Now Have An Answer. Susannah CahalanSthe Great Pretender Is Such An Achievement. ItS A Wonderful Look At The Anti-Psychiatry Movement And A Great Adventure - Gripping, Investigative. ItS Destined To Become A Popular And Important Book -- Jon Ronsonutterly Compelling . . . Important And Spirited Observera Fascinating Piece Of Detection . . . Passionate [And] A Warning Against Easy Answers Sunday Timesa Vivid Account . . . An Impressive Feat Of Investigative Journalism - Tenaciously Conducted, Appealingly Written . . . As Compelling As A Detective Novel Economist Published On: 2020-01-11I WasnT Really Prepared For The Story Cahalan Ends Up Telling. That She Discovered The Truth About Rosenhan Is A Testimony To Her Dogged Research. That This Truth Was Inconvenient For Her Own Outlook On Psychiatry Is A Compliment To Her Integrity. She Writes It All Very Well Too, With Clarity, Economy And Style The Timesa Well-Crafted, Gripping Narrative That Succeeds On Many Levels. Cahalan, Who Gained The Trust Of RosenhanS Family, Is Meticulous And Sensitive In Her Research; Compelling And Insightful In Her Writing. She Accurately Conveys The Troubles That Have Haunted Psychiatry Over The Past Half-Century . . . Her Book, Which I Hope Wins Awards, Has Immense Value As A Historical Account Financial Timesbrilliant Detective Work . . . Fascinating Guardianthe Great Pretender Recounts The Remarkable Investigation That [Cahalan] Undertook. The Book Reads Like A Fascinating Real-Life Detective Story . . . Exposing What [Rosenhan] Got Up To Is A Quite Exceptional Accomplishment, And Cahalan Recounts The Story Vividly And With Great Skill Spectatorcahalan Tells This Whole Story Not Simply With Dramatic Flair But Also With The Passion Of A Former Patient Whose Own Misdiagnosis . . . Almost Resulted In Her Death Times Literary Supplementa Gripping Work Of Detection Daily Mail Book Description From One Of AmericaS Most Courageous Young Journalists (Npr) Comes A Propulsive Narrative History Investigating The Fifty-Year-Old Mystery Behind A Dramatic Experiment That Changed The Course Of Modern Medicine 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 Lives In Brooklyn.@Scahalan | Susannahcahalan.Com