{"product_id":"the-great-pretender-the-undercover-mission-that-changed-our-understanding-of-madness-9781538715277","title":"The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness","description":"\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the 2020 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNamed a Best Book of 2020 by \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian * The Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"One of America's most courageous young journalists\" and the author of the #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling memoir \u003ci\u003eBrain on Fire\u003c\/i\u003e investigates the shocking mystery behind the dramatic experiment that revolutionized modern medicine (NPR\u003ci\u003e).\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDoctors have struggled for centuries to define insanity--how do you diagnose it, how do you treat it, how do you even know what \u003ci\u003eit \u003c\/i\u003eis? 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut, 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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSusannah Cahalan\u003c\/b\u003e is the award-winning, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eBrain on Fire\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003ci\u003eMy Month of Madness, \u003c\/i\u003e a memoir about her struggle with a rare autoimmune disease of the brain. She writes for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Post.\u003c\/i\u003e Her work has also been featured in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times, Scientific American Magazine, Glamour, Psychology Today, \u003c\/i\u003e and other publications. She lives in Brooklyn.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Grand Central Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50626126512402,"sku":"9781538715277","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a693dbdf-5c3c-4c24-aecf-1f561da74524.jpg?v=1732649474","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-great-pretender-the-undercover-mission-that-changed-our-understanding-of-madness-9781538715277","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}