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“Mentally healthy in the place of the crazy” is how David Rosenhan, professor of psychology and law at Stanford University, called his exposé. Before him, journalists and psychiatrists have repeatedly penetrated into psychiatric institutions undercover, but for the first time such an operation was carried out on such a large scale and was accompanied by the collection of detailed empirical data, and its result was the publication in the main scientific publication "Science". Rosenhan's research became "a sword that pierced the very heart of psychiatry": it undermined its authority, provoked fierce discussions in psychiatric circles, and influenced the formation of a new system for diagnosing mental illness. Its significance is difficult to exaggerate, but decades later, when there were almost no living witnesses to the famous experiment, Suzanne Cahalan took up the investigation of Rosenhan's story. She was led on this path by another "great pretender" - autoimmune encephalitis, a disease whose symptoms mimicked schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, but were caused by physical causes - obvious dysfunctions of the body. Turning to the Rosenhan experiment for Suzanne is an attempt to answer the main question for her, which the researcher himself asked: if sanity and insanity exist, how can we distinguish them from each other?