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Reviewed on March 1, 2020 | Audio
A former reporter for the New York Post, Cahalan was institutionalized for a month because doctors believed she had a psychiatric illness, though she actually had an autoimmune type of encephalitis. When she recovered, Cahalan became interested in the process of how she came to be misdiagnosed and treated. Cahalan discovered a 1970s study, "On Being Sane in Insane Places" by St...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
