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The author traces the origins of the field across different countries. She ferrets out disturbing truths about a seminal article in the literature on psychiatric assessment. This book is a fascinating, engaging book that will be of interest to anyone ... Read More
Susannah cahalan is the author of the bestselling memoir brain on my month of madness. Cahalan writes of her search for more information and about the impact of the study including a great deal of background information as well.
The author tells her own experience with mental health and diagnosis.
The great pretender is a wonderful history of psychiatry and mental illness in america. It is a riveting journalistic analysis of one of the foundational studies in psychology. Halfway through the book, the pretender makes a great turnaround.
The author makes it emphatically clear that her major objective is not to debunk rosenhan’s work. She locates discrepancies and anomalies that cast doubt on his data and methodology.
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Susannah cahalan is a propagandist not a journalist and she writes columns for of all things the new york post- a libertarian, right wing anti-union rag. It is psychiatry that nearly killed her by using a checklist of symptoms believing that her prese... Read More
The writing style of this book is awful. Read the inside cover flap. It's not propulsive or searing.
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Rosenhan and his study took the field of psychiatry one step closer toward treating all patients with the dignity and simple hu... Read More
Given her job as a reporter and her experience with the traditional symptoms of mental illness it is easy to see why cahalan wo... Read More
There is nothing specifically wrong with the dsm iii and beyond as a way of classifying psychiatric illness
In fact she finds someone who spent years in the mental health system before being correctly diagnosed with the author’s diseas... Read More
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Psychiatry is newer but even more prone to fads such as lobotomies
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”—from a father of a son diagnosed with psychosis quoted in the bookthe great pretender makes an excellent case that psychiatry... Read More
Competitiveness
Callahan also brings up some important points about competition and the push to publish in academia
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- This product had a total of 799 reviews as of our last analysis date on May 27 2022.
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Im mostly writing this as a response to the person who gave it a one star review and complained that it didnt delve into the experiences of the participants too deeply
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The person who wrote that review clearly didnt finish reading the book because there is a very good reason why it doesnt do this that is laid out very clearly in that last third
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This does not make for pleasant reading
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However the latter was the exception not the rule
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Cahalan says there is something profoundly upsetting about someone who does not share our reality
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This widelyread study may have to a small extent helped hasten the deinstitutionalization of thousands of sick people who in many cases ended up in jail or on the streets
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In an unexpected twist cahalan looks into rosenhans background and discovers much to her surprise that this charismatic teacher and researcher may have falsified at least a portion of the data that he used to critique mental hospitals
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Although the great pretender has quite a few tangents that seem like filler it is a compelling and persuasive warning that socalled scientific studies may be misleading or fraudulent
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