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 41%
dark 20%
emotional 17%
mysterious 14%
sad 13%
hopeful 7%
inspiring 6%
tense 5%
adventurous 2%

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slow 35%
fast 10%

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