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The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness
The Great Pretender The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness
Author: 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 ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781538715277
ISBN-10: 1538715279
Publication Date: 9/8/2020
Pages: 400
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Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio CD
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This book is a follow up to the author's autobiographical book in which she recounts her experience being misdiagnosed with a mental illness. I expected this book to be an objective book about a scientific psychiatric study, but there was no objectivity to be found. The author constantly brings up her own experiences. Constantly. This really ruined this book for me and I almost didn't bother finishing it.


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