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Release Date:  November 5, 2019 Publisher:  Grand Central Publishing Format:  Audio Length:  11 hours 3  minutes Narrator:  Susannah Cahalan & Christie Moreau Genre:  Psychology, history Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle Synopsis:  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 ...

Release Date:  November 13, 2012 Publisher:  Highbridge Audio Format:  Audio Length:  7 hours 48 minutes Narrator:  Heather Henderson Genre:  Medicine/autobiography Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle  |  Paperback Synopsis:  In 2009, Susannah Cahalan woke up in a strange hospital room strapped to a bed, under guard, and unable to move or speak. Her medical records - from a month-long hospital stay of which she had no memory - reported psychosis, violence, and dangerous instability. Yet, only weeks earlier she had been a healthy, ambitious twenty-four-year-old, six months into her first serious relationship and a sparkling career as a cub reporter. Susannah's astonishing memoir chronicles the swift path of her illness and the lucky, last-minute intervention led by one of the few doctors capable of saving her life. Weeks ticked by and Susannah moved inexplicably from violence to catatonia. Over one million dollars worth of bloo...