The Great Pretender : The Undercover Mission that Changed our Understanding of Madness 偉大的偽裝者:改變我們對瘋狂理解的祕密任務（現代醫學戲劇性實驗背後令人震驚的祕密）

By (author) Susannah Cahalan

基礎信息

Format Hardback | 400 pages

Dimensions 144 x 220 x 36mm | 509g

Publication date 02 Jan 2020

Publisher Canongate Books Ltd

Publication City/Country Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Language English

Edition Statement Main

ISBN10 1838851410

ISBN13 9781838851415

頁面參數僅供參考，具體以實物為準

作品介紹

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 - sane, normal, well-adjusted members of society - went undercover into asylums around America to test the legitimacy of psychiatry's labels. Forced to remain inside until they'd 'proven' themselves sane, all eight emerged with alarming diagnoses and even more troubling stories of their treatment. Rosenhan's watershed study broke open the field of psychiatry, closing down institutions and changing mental health diagnosis forever.

But, as Cahalan's explosive new research shows, very little in this saga is exactly as it seems. What really happened behind those closed asylum doors, and what does it mean for our understanding of mental illness today?

幾個世紀以來，醫生們一直在努力給精神疾病下定義——如何診斷它，如何治療它，甚至如何知道它是什麼?為了尋找答案，上世紀70年代，斯坦福大學心理學家大衞·羅森漢(David Rosenhan)和另外7個人——心智健全、正常、適應良好的社會成員——祕密進入美國各地的精神病院，測試精神病學標籤的合法性。他們被迫呆在家裏，直到“證明”自己神智正常，這八個人都被診斷出了令人擔憂的病症，還有更令人不安的治療經歷。羅森漢的分水嶺式研究打開了精神病學領域，關閉了一些機構，永遠改變了精神健康診斷。

但是，正如卡哈蘭爆炸性的新研究所表明的，這個傳奇故事中很少是完全像它看起來那樣的。在那些緊閉的精神病院的門後到底發生了什麼?它對我們今天對精神疾病的理解意味着什麼?

作者簡介

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.