The Great pretender : the undercover mission that changed our understanding of madness / Susannah Cahalan.
"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?" -- Back cover.
In 2009, 24-year-old Susannah Cahalan hovered on the precipice between life and death. Even as her doctors informed her family that she had incurable schizophrenia and would spend the rest of her short life in an institution, another doctor down the hall performed one final, informal test that, miraculously, delivered a lifesaving diagnosis: her disease was brought on by a physical problem and therefore treatable, more 'real, ' in other words, than the intangible problem of a purely mental illness. Susannah is the rare patient who has experienced both sides of this divide: the compassionate response to a treatable, physical diagnosis and the frightening realities of the label of insanity.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781549175282
- Physical Description: 9 audio discs (11 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: [New York] : Hachette Audio, Grand Central Pub., [2019]
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General Note: | Title from container. Compact discs. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by the author and Christie Moreau. |
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Subject: | Mental illness > Diagnosis. Mental illness > Treatment. Mental health services > United States. Psychiatry > Research. |
Genre: | Audiobooks. |
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Memorial Library of Nazareth and Vicinity | BOT-CD 616.89 CAH 2019 (Text) | 31001101779362 | Adult Audiobook | Available | - |