Great Pretender by Susannah Cahalan

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Great Pretender by Susannah Cahalan

$8.79
ISBN:
9781538715284
Author:
Susannah Cahalan
Publisher:
Grand Central Publishing
Publication Date:
2019
Format:
Hardback

Shortlisted for the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize 2020 In the early 1970s, Stanford professor Dr Rosenhan conducted an experimen…

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Great Pretender by Susannah Cahalan

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Shortlisted for the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize 2020

In the early 1970s, Stanford professor Dr Rosenhan conducted an experiment, sending sane patients into psychiatric wards; the result of which was a damning paper about psychiatric practises. The ripple effects of this paper helped bring the field of psychiatry to its knees, closing down institutions and changing mental health diagnosis forever.

But what if that ground-breaking and now-famous experiment was itself deeply flawed? And what does that mean for our understanding of mental illness today? These are the questions Susannah Cahalan asks in her completely engrossing investigation into this staggering case, where nothing is quite as it seems.

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