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The Great Pretender

by Susannah Cahalan

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First published
2019
Pages
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Susannah Cahalan’s “The Great Pretender” is a compelling narrative that delves into the realm of mental health. It brings to light an audacious experiment conducted in the 1970s by David Rosenhan, a psychologist from Stanford. In this experiment, eight perfectly healthy individuals went incognito into mental institutions, thereby questioning the very essence of insanity. This daring act led to a paradigm shift in how mental health diagnoses were perceived. Cahalan’s book offers an in-depth analysis of this groundbreaking experiment and its far-reaching consequences.

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Susannah Cahalan

Susannah Cahalan reexamines a celebrated psychology experiment in The Great Pretender, published by Grand Central Publishing in 2019. The book investigates David Rosenhan’s 1973 pseudopatient study, which reported that healthy volunteers gained admission to psychiatric hospitals and influenced debates about diagnosis and institutional care.

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First published
2019
Reading time
About 7 hours
Pages
377
Language
English
Formats
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