CONTENTS

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Epigraph

Preface

PART ONE

1 Mirror Image

2 Nellie Bly

3 The Seat of Madness

4 On Being Sane in Insane Places

5 A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery Inside an Enigma

PART TWO

6 The Essence of David

7 “Go Slowly, and Perhaps Not at All”

8 “I Might Not Be Unmasked”

9 Committed

10 Nine Days Inside a Madhouse

PART THREE

11 Getting In

12 … And Only the Insane Knew Who Was Sane

13 W. Underwood

14 Crazy Eights

15 Ward 11

16 Soul on Ice

17 Rosemary Kennedy

PART FOUR

18 The Truth Seeker

19 “All Other Questions Follow from That”

20 Criterionating

21 The SCID

PART FIVE

22 The Footnote

23 “It’s All in Your Mind”

24 Shadow Mental Health Care System

25 The Hammer

26 An Epidemic

27 Moons of Jupiter

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

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About the Author

Also by Susannah Cahalan

Reading Group Guide

Permissions

Notes