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Author Cahalan, Susannah, author.

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

Publication Info. [Waterville, Maine] : Thorndike Press, 2020.
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 Plainville Public Library - Large Print Materials  LARGE PRINT 616.89 CAH    Check Shelf
Edition Large print edition.
Description 681 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Series Thorndike Press large print nonfiction
Thorndike Press large print nonfiction series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary "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 psychiatry's labels. Forced to remain inside until they'd "proven" themselves sane, 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 down institutions and changing mental health diagnosis forever. But, as Cahalan's explosive new research shows in this real-life detective story, very little in this saga is exactly as it seems. What really happened behind those closed asylum doors?"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Rosenhan, David L.
Mental illness -- Diagnosis.
Mental illness -- Treatment.
Psychiatric hospital care -- United States -- Evaluation.
Mental health services -- United States.
Psychiatry -- Research.
Mental health services. (OCoLC)fst01016498
Mental illness -- Diagnosis. (OCoLC)fst01016561
Mental illness -- Treatment. (OCoLC)fst01016606
Psychiatric hospital care -- Evaluation. (OCoLC)fst01081019
Psychiatry -- Research. (OCoLC)fst01081179
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
ISBN 9781432878917 (hardcover)
1432878913 (hardcover)
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