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Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: Dec 1969
Genre: Psychology - History
Retail Price: $21.99
Pages: 400
\"One of America\'s most courageous young journalists\" and the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir Brain on Fire investigates the shocking mystery behind the dramatic experiment that revolutionized modern medicine (NPR).\r\n\r\nDoctors have struggled for centuries to define insanityhow do you diagnose it, how do you treat it, how do you even know what itis? In search of an answer, in the 1970s a Stanford psychologist named David Rosenhan and seven other peoplesane, healthy, well-adjusted members of societywent 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. \r\n\r\n 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?