The Great Pretender by Susannah Cahalan

The Great Pretender

Susannah Cahalan

382 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history psychology science informative medium-paced
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For centuries, doctors have struggled to define mental illness - 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...

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informative: 95%

reflective: 50%

challenging: 39%

dark: 19%

emotional: 16%

mysterious: 14%

sad: 11%

hopeful: 7%

inspiring: 7%

tense: 4%

adventurous: 2%


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