Author: Susannah Cahalan

From the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir Brain on Fire: This probing account explores a pivotal 1970s experiment in which eight people, including Stanford psychologist David Rosenhan, entered American psychiatric hospitals in an undercover operation that changed the field of modern medicine.

One day in 2009, twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a strange hospital room, strapped to her bed, under guard, and unable to move or speak. A wristband marked her as a “flight risk,” and her medical records—chronicling a month-long hospital stay of which she had no memory at all—showed hallucinations, violence, and dangerous instability. Only weeks earlier, Susannah had been … been on the threshold of a new, adult life: a healthy, ambitious college grad a few months into her first serious relationship and a promising career as a cub reporter at a major New York newspaper. Who…