02153cam a2200337 4500 759636990 TxAuBib 20200831120000.0 200819t20202019||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 2020004264 9781432878917 lg. print : alk. paper 1432878913 lg. print : alk. paper KyBuM KyBuM TxGR TxAuBib Cahalan, Susannah. The great pretender [Large Type Book] : the undercover mission that changed our understanding of madness / Susannah Cahalan. Large print ed. [Farmington Hills, Mich : Thorndike Press/Gale, 2020. ©2019. 681 p. (large print) ; 23 cm. Thorndike Press large print nonfiction "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?"--Provided by the publisher. 20200831. Rosenhan, David L. Mental illness Diagnosis. Mental illness Treatment. Psychiatric hospital care United States Evaluation. Mental health services United States. Psychiatry Research. Thorndike Press large print nonfiction. RV8