3-4 p.m. Moderated discussion
4-5 p.m. Book signing

In the 1970s a distinguished Stanford University psychologist named David Rosenhan organized a study – “On Being Sane in Insane Places” – where he and seven other people went undercover and had themselves committed to asylums around America to test the legitimacy of psychiatry’s labels.

Almost 50 years later, New York Times #1 bestselling author Susannah Cahalan investigates this experiment in her newly published book THE GREAT PRETENDER, including what really happened behind those closed asylum doors, and what it means for our understanding of mental illness today.

The School of Public Health will hold an intriguing conversation featuring Cahalan and SPH Professor Harry Lando. The two will discuss Cahalan’s findings and Lando’s surprising connection to the Rosenhan experiment as the ninth “pseudo-patient.”

Free and open to the public.

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