Great Pretender : The Undercover Mission that Changed our Understanding of Madness

Name: Great Pretender
Brand: Canongate Books
SKU: 9781838851446
Price: 2000 KES
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ISBN: 9781838851446

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by Susannah Cahalan

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 1838851445

ISBN-13 9781838851446

Edition Main

Publisher Canongate Books

Imprint Canongate Books

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jul 16th, 2020

Print length 400 Pages

Weight 280 grams

Dimensions 13.00 x 19.60 x 3.00 cms

Product Classification: Psychiatry Psychiatry

KSh 2,000.00

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From 'one of America's most courageous young journalists' (NPR) comes a propulsive narrative history investigating the fifty-year-old mystery behind a dramatic experiment that changed the course of modern medicine

Shortlisted for the 2020 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize

Named a Best Book of 2020 by The Guardian * The Telegraph * The Times

In the early 1970s, Stanford professor Dr Rosenhan conducted an experiment, sending sane patients into psychiatric wards; the result of which was a damning paper about psychiatric practises. The ripple effects of this paper helped bring the field of psychiatry to its knees, closing down institutions and changing mental health diagnosis forever.

But what if that ground-breaking and now-famous experiment was itself deeply flawed? And what does that mean for our understanding of mental illness today? These are the questions Susannah Cahalan asks in her completely engrossing investigation into this staggering case, where nothing is quite as it seems.

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