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

An investigation of the shocking mystery behind the dramatic experiment that revolutionized modern medicine, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Brain on Fire.

"Bold, brave, and original." -Susan Orlean, bestselling author of The Orchid Thief

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-...