A review by booklover000
The Great Pretender by Susannah Cahalan

dark emotional informative slow-paced

3.0

I enjoyed this one but didn’t LOVE it. It was a fine historical account of mental illness and very well laid-out. But I wanted more from it, and it didn’t quite deliver. Read if you love learning about 19th c. Mental health treatment, asylums, the injustices against mentally ill people, and how mental health diagnosis is changing (i.e. if you’re a psychology nerd like me, you may also find this to be a perfectly enjoyable read).