![]() ![]() The Rosenhan experiment asked the question, “Can psychiatrists tell the sane from the insane?” One quote from Cahalan that I loved was, “We were mastering the great mysteries of the world-conquering space, cancer, and infertility. ![]() In her new book, “The Great Pretender,” Cahalan marries her own experience with psychosis with an experiment posed by American psychologist David Rosenhan. Her first book, “Brain on Fire,” details her descent into madness and what it was like not being in control of her body with no one to help. She believed she could age people with her mind and read nurses’ thoughts. ![]() Susannah Cahalan, known for her memoir “Brain on Fire,” had a brush with psychosis when she developed a rare autoimmune disorder, anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis. ![]()
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