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Susannah Cahalan - Great Pretender, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

Great Pretender

The Undercover Mission that Changed our Understanding of Madness

Av Susannah Cahalan

Del i serien Canongate Books

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Beskrivning
Shortlisted for the 2020 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book PrizeNamed a Best Book of 2020 by The Guardian * The Telegraph * The TimesIn 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.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2020-07-16
  • Mått: 129 x 198 x 32 mm
  • Vikt: 456 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: Canongate Books
  • Antal sidor: 400
  • Förlag: Canongate Books
  • ISBN: 9781838851446
  • Utmärkelser: Short-listed for Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize 2020 (UK)
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Susannah Cahalan is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, a memoir about her struggle with a rare autoimmune disease of the brain. She lives in Brooklyn.@scahalan | susannahcahalan.com

Recensioner i media

People have asked me over the years: if they liked The Psychopath Test, what should they read next? I now have an answer. Susannah Cahalan's The Great Pretender is such an achievement. It's a wonderful look at the anti-psychiatry movement and a great adventure - gripping, investigative. It's destined to become a popular and important book

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2 recensioner, genomsnitt 4/5

  1. 4/5 Henning H

    Trots att boken skildrar/fokuserar på den amerikanska psykiatrins utveckling så kvarstår dess betydelse för hur övriga världen inklusive vårt eget land följt dessa strömningar. När boken sedan lyfter fram hur olika amerikanska falsarier spelat roll för utvecklingen inom psykiatrin blir boken mycket intressant även för en läkare med sin verksamhet inom kirurgin under motsvarande period. Kan rekommenderas till alla intresserade av modern medicinhistoria från 1950-talet och framåt.

  2. 4/5 Kolobri

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