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In the 1970s a Stanford psychologist named David Rosenhan and seven other people went undercover into asylums around America to test the legitimacy of psychiatrya�TMs labels. All eight emerged with alarming diagnoses and even more troubling stories of their treatment. Rosenhana�TMs watershed study broke open the field of psychiatry, closing down institutions and changing mental health diagnosis forever. But, as Cahalana�TMs explosive new research shows in this real-life detective story, very little in this saga is exactly as it seems. What really happened behind those closed asylum doors?