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

by Susannah Cahalan

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 psy

Publisher

Grand Central Publishing

Publication date

2020

Format

Print edition

Pages

416

ISBN

9781538715277