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The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness
by Susannah Cahalan
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In 1973, a Stanford psychologist published a study that shook American psychiatry. He and several healthy volunteers claimed symptoms, were admitted to psychiatric hospitals and recorded what happened inside. The paper changed how diagnosis was debated and helped empty the asylums. Decades later, journalist Susannah Cahalan sets out to trace the study's hidden participants and its unpublished notes. As she follows the leads, the story grows stranger and harder to pin down. Told like a detective story, this investigation asks how psychiatry tells sickness from health, who gets believed, and how one compelling story can shape the treatment of millions. It is rigorous and suspenseful, and it is humane towards patients caught inside the system.
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