The moment we were admitted to the hospital, we abandoned our symptom, and we behaved the way we usually behave. The question was, would anyone detect we were sane . The answer was, no. Susan your new book, the great pretender, centers around the story of this man. Who is he . Susannah hes a stanford professor, and he was the architect of this amazing study with the incredible footage you just played, called on being sane in insane places. He and seven other people undercover innt Psychiatric Hospitals around the country. Their mission was to test the nature of diagnosis and see if there sanity would be detected. As he said, they were not. Susan the study was done in the early 1970s. Why are you interested in it today . Susannah it came from a very personal place. I emerged from my previous book, my memoir, brain on fire, my experienceed with an autoimmune disease that targeted my brain that was briefly misdiagnosed as a serious Mental Illness. Originally bipolar disorder and then schi
The hospital, we abandoned our symptom, and we behaved the way we usually behave. The question was, would anyone detect we were sane . The answer was, no. Host your new book, the great pretender, centers around the story of this man. Who is he . Susannah hes a stanford professor who was the architect of this amazing study with the incredible footage you just played, called on being sane in insane places. Just has he has described, he and seven other people reportedly went undercover in Psychiatric Hospitals around the country to test the nature of diagnosis and see if their sanity would be detected. As he said, they were not. The study was done in the early 1970s. Why are you interested in it today . Susannah it came from a very personal place. I had my previous book, my memoir, brain on fire, which targeted my experience that was briefly misdiagnosed as a serious Mental Illness. Originally bipolar disorder and then schizoaffective disorder. After that book came out, i was inundated by
A group of colleagues and i gained admission to Psychiatric Hospitals by simulating, by faking a single symptom. We said we heard voices. The voices said, empty, dull, thud. The moment we were admitted to the hospital, we abandoned our symptom, and we behaved the way we usually behave. The question was, would anyone detect we were sane . The answer was, no. We have tested her for every Infectious Disease and all of the results are negative. Or eeg is completely normal. Her mri is normal. Its all normal. Her condition continues to regress. Mania, paranoia. First they are saying its schizophrenic, than they are saying its psychotic. We should look at hospitals better equipped to deal with this. You look fine. Host when did this happen to you . Susannah i was 24 at the time. A lot of that time i dont remember. Its always very bizarre to see it recreated in movie form. I wrote about about a time that is very much lost to me, and then it was recreated, so i have very strange feelings about
Do question was, would anyone detect that we were sane . The answer was no. Your new book centers around the stores of this man. Who is he . Susannah hes a stanford professor who was the architect of this amazing study with the incredible footage you just inyed, called on being sane insane places. He went undercover in Psychiatric Hospitals around the country to test the ifure of diagnosis and see their sanity would be detected. As he said, they were not. The study was done in the early 1970s. Why are you interested in it today . Susannah it came from a very personal place. Had my previous book, my memoir, brain on fire, which targeted my experience that was briefly misdiagnosed as a serious Mental Illness. Book came out, i was inundated by emails from the general public, a lot of people who were looking for answers, some of whom actually found answers because of my book, but i also received many emails from people who felt lost within the Mental Health system, who felt they were not b