The Great Pretender The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness

Shortlisted for the 2020 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book PrizeNamed a Best Book of 2020 by The Guardian * The Telegraph * The TimesIn 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.

ISBN:	9781838851446
Publisher:	Canongate Books
Imprint:	Canongate
Published date:	16 Jul 2020
DEWEY:	616.89
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	xiii, 382
Weight:	276g
Height:	130mm
Width:	196mm
Spine width:	30mm

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