First published 2019
In the 1970s, a Stanford psychologist and seven others went undercover into asylums to test psychiatry's methods. What they uncovered was a system in crisis, with patients wrongly diagnosed and horribly mistreated. Now, one journalist unravels the true story behind this watershed moment, exposing the mysteries that still haunt the field of mental health.
Genres: biography, history, medical, 20th-century, 21st-century, academic
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: investigative-journalism, uncovering-the-truth
Setting: United States
416 pages · Paperback
Content warnings: abuse, medical-trauma, mental-illness