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1968 lässt sich ein 40-jähriger, leicht verwahrlost wirkender Mann auf eigenen Wunsch in der Psychiatrie aufnehmen. Er gibt an, Stimmen zu hören.... Das ist der Anfang einer Geschichte, die die Psychiatrie in den USA und in Deutschland maßgeblich verändern wird, und den Weg zu den heute gültigen Diagnosekriterien ebnet. Und das, obwohl die Geschichte SO wahrscheinlich gar nicht passiert ist... Franca hat ein Buch geschrieben, über Angststörungen, Depression und Alkoholabhängigkeit (dies sin die drei häufigsten seelischen Schieflagen!). Das, und weitere Ressourcen, findest du hier: [www.franca-cerutti.de](http://www.franca-cerutti.de) Du möchtest mehr über unsere Werbepartner erfahren? Hier findest du alle Infos & Rabatte: https://linktr.ee/psychologietogo

Susannah Cahalan tells the astonishing true story of her descent into madness, her family’s inspiring faith in her, and the lifesaving diagnosis that nearly didn’t happen. Her New York Times bestselling book “Brain on Fire” was adapted for a movie starring Chloe Grace Moretz as her. It’s an unforgettable exploration of memory and identity, faith and love, and a profoundly compelling tale of survival and perseverance. 

 

She was a healthy young person working at her dream job, The New York Post when she began having grand mal seizures and babbling. Her increasing paranoia and seizures were misdiagnosed by a neurologist as partying too hard combined with stress. Eventually, she’d become catatonic, trapped in her body unable to speak, write, or get thoughts out. 

 

Susannah was diagnosed with a schizoaffective disorder with video of her in the hospital heartbreakingly capturing her real panic as she hallucinates she’s on the news while using the remote to try to call for help. After many misdiagnoses and on the verge of being “locked up” in a psych ward, a miracle doctor, Dr. Najjar comes along and asks her to draw a clock. The lopsided image opened up clues leading to a brain biopsy and spinal tap, she’s diagnosed with autoimmune encephalitis, a medical explanation pretending to be psychiatric. 

 

Her personal experience leads her deeper into the study of other “Great Pretenders,” the same name as her second New York Times best-selling book. She’d blow the lid on a groundbreaking 1973 study called “On Being Sane in Insane Places” that rocked the psychiatric world and still does. Susannah lives in Brooklyn with her husband and twin toddlers.

 

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Susannah Cahalan Website

 

Video of Susannah When Her Brain is On Fire

 

Rachel's List- Fourteen Incredible Memoirs about Mental Illness and Addiction

 

Rachel's List- Four MORE Insightful Memoirs and Non-Fiction Books about Mental Illness and Addiction

 

The Angel and the Assassin by Donna Jackson Nakazawa

 

Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chobsky

 

I’m Telling the Truth, but I’m Lying: Essays by Bassey Ikpi

 

My Age of Anxiety by Scott Stossel

 

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Keith Instone and Serena Rosenhan both return to the show for an episode about UX and "buzzwordification". The last 3-4 years have seen a big rise in the use UX terminology in the media and among coworkers. What are the advantages and disadvantages for UX practitioners now that UX has become popular beyond academia and professional societies? Tim Keirnan sets up the roundtable discussion and the wisdom pours out of these two veteran UX professionals.

The fireplace crackling gets a bit loud at points but plying guests with food, drink, and fireplace ambience is part of our recording process. You can find Serena at
www.linkedin.com/in/serenarosenhan

You can find Keith at
https://www.linkedin.com/in/keithinstone/

What does the movie Shrek have to do with labeling, psychiatric illness and the self-fulfilling prophecy? In this episode I take a close look at the well-known Rosenhan study. This was the study in which pseudopatients pretend to hear voices and on the basis of this they get admitted to psychiatric centers. Then they were told to act normally. It took an average of 19 days for these pseudopatients to be discharged from the hospital and even then they were diagnosed as schizophrenia in remission.

Does this study show that psychiatric diagnoses are not only useless but also possibly harmful? Or do we find what we found back in episode 47 on Little Albert, and what we found in episode 36 on Kitty Genovese that what we thought we knew is largely wrong.