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The great pretender : the undercover mission that changed our understanding of madness  Cover Image Book Book

The great pretender : the undercover mission that changed our understanding of madness / Susannah Cahalan.

Cahalan, Susannah, (author.).

Summary:

For centuries, doctors have struggled to define mental illness. 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 psychiatry's labels. 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 institutions and changing mental health diagnosis forever.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781538715284
  • Physical Description: xiii, 382 pages ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2019.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-366) and index.
Subject: Rosenhan, David L.
Mental illness > Diagnosis.
Mental illness > Treatment.
Mental health services.
Psychiatry > Research.

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