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

Title: Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness Author: Susannah Cahalan ISBN: 9781538715284 Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Published: 2019 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Condition: Used: Near Fine Psychology 1624316 Publisher Description: Shortlisted for the 2020 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize Named 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 in this international bestseller (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 psycholog