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The Great Pretender
The Undercover Mission that Changed our Understanding of Madness
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Shortlisted for the 2020 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize

Named a Best Book of 2020 by The Guardian * The Telegraph * The Times

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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ISBN-13: 9781838851446
Publisher: Canongate Books
Publication date: July, 2020
Pages: 400
Dimensions: 129.00 x 198.00 x 24.00
Weight: 267g
Availability: Available
Subcategories: Psychiatry

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