The great pretender : the undercover mission that changed our understanding of madness

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  • Author: Cahalan, Susannah
    Contributor:

    Moreau, Christine

    Summary:

    In the 1970s, a Stanford psychologist named David Rosenhan and seven other people--sane, normal, well-adjusted members of society--went undercover into asylums around America to test the legitimacy of psychiatry's labels. 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, very little in this saga is exactly as it seems.

    Original Publisher: [New York] , Hachette Book Group
    Language(s): English
    ISBN:

    9781549103001

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    1549103008

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    9781549175282

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    1549175289

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Moreau, Christine

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In the 1970s, a Stanford psychologist named David Rosenhan and seven other people--sane, normal, well-adjusted members of society--went undercover into asylums around America to test the legitimacy of psychiatry's labels. 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, very little in this saga is exactly as it seems.

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[New York]

Hachette Book Group

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