The Great Pretender by Susannah Cahalan

The Great Pretender

Susannah Cahalan with Christie Moreau (Narrator)

11 hours, 3 minutes first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history psychology science informative medium-paced

Description

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--sane, ...

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informative 96%
reflective 48%
challenging 43%
dark 19%
emotional 16%
mysterious 13%
sad 12%
hopeful 7%
inspiring 7%
tense 5%
adventurous 2%

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slow 36%
fast 10%

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