The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness By Susannah Cahalan

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Shortlisted for the 2020 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book PrizeNamed a Best Book of 2020 by The Guardian * The Telegraph * The Times"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).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?

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I read through the first half of Cahalan's book with a bit of detachment. Her presenting story about her own misdiagnosis of schizophrenia (she had suffered a type of encephalitis which mimicked all the symptoms) made for very interesting reading, and segued naturally into her research on David Rosenhan's vital study, On Being Sane in Insane Places, a nine page article published in Science, January 1973, which helped to revolutionize thinking about the abuses of psychiatric hospitals. She recapped the history of psychology briefly and vividly, but as I read along, I wasn't finding a great deal I didn't already know. I knew about Nellie Bly going undercover in the horrors of the 1800s; I knew about lobotomies and shock treatments; I knew about the failure of psychoanalysis. Cahalan, putting the article in perspective, points out its importance at the time of publication. "By the late 1980s, a little over a decade after its publication, nearly 80 percent of all intro-to-psychology textbooks included Rosenhan's study." That's an impressively well known study, but still, all this took place over fifty years ago and the field is a swiftly changing one.And then, halfway through her narrative, The Great Pretender makes a great turnaround, and we begin to wonder what the Pretender is pretending. I almost don't want to reveal the plot twist, so abrupt and vivid it is, even though the book is a carefully researched work of nonfiction. Cahalan is a trained reporter who really knows how to dig, and she knows how to tell a story too. Determined to discover the identities of Rosenhan's 'pseudopatients', the eight 'healthy people' who had themselves committed as test cases, she finally traced one by digging through the files of the deceased scientist. By this time she had a few questions about Rosenhan's account of his own stay. Certain small details in his notes didn't match up with his published article.The more she digs, the more questions she has and the fewer answers. This was the article which helped to convince the world that psychiatry was incapable of accurate diagnosis. The creation of the DSM-3 was influenced by this study. Psychiatric hospitals closed down from lack of funding all over the country. And in the end, after rigorous research, chasing one dead end after another, she is left, as is the reader, with the certainty that Rosenhan just made it all up. Why not? It did his career a world of good.Perhaps psychiatric hospitals were dismal warehouses where the chances of the sick making a recovery were slim. But she points out such a study could never take place today. No one would be admitted to a psychiatric hospital because they heard a few voices. Perhaps they'd be given a prescription. If they were violent, perhaps a jail sentence. Or they might just end up on the streets.

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