The great pretender - the undercover mission that changed our understanding of madness
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 - clinically sane members of society - went undercover into asylums around America to test the legitimacy of psychiatry's labels. Rosenhan's study broke open the field of psychiatry, changing mental health diagnosis forever. But, as this book shows, very little in this saga is exactly what it seems. What really happened behind those closed asylum doors, and what does it mean for our understanding of mental illness today?
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