Suspicious minds : how culture shapes madness / Joel Gold and Ian Gold.
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TextPublisher: New York : Free Press, 2014Edition: First Free Press hardcover editionDescription: xix, 321 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1439181551 (hardback)
- 9781439181553 (hardback)
- How culture shapes madness
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
What if you woke up with the alarming suspicion that you were being watched?
One day in 2003, a patient unlike any other that Dr. Joel Gold had seen before was admitted to his unit at Bellevue Hospital. This man claimed he was being filmed constantly and that his life was being broadcast around the world like The Truman Show --the 1998 film depicting a man who is unknowingly living out his life as the star of a popular soap opera. Over the next few years, Dr. Gold saw a number of patients suffering from what he and his brother, Dr. Ian Gold, began calling the "Truman Show delusion," launching them on a quest to understand the nature of this particular phenomenon, of delusions more generally, and of madness itself.
The current view of delusions is that they are the result of biology gone awry, of neurons in the brain misfiring. In contrast, the Golds argue that delusions are the result of the interaction between the brain and the social world. By exploring the major categories of delusion through fascinating case studies and marshaling the latest research in schizophrenia, the brothers reveal the role of culture and the social world in the development of psychosis--delusions in particular. Suspicious Minds presents a groundbreaking new vision of just how dramatically our surroundings can influence our brains.
"The Truman Show delusion and other strange beliefs"--Jacket.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-304) and index.
The Truman Show delusion -- The sleep of reason. A short history of madness ; James Tilly Matthews : the air loom ; Donald : depression and damnation ; Louis : hell on Earth ; One hundred years of delusion ; Friedrich Krauss : a hot metal disk ; Ruby : all dressed up and nowhere to go ; How does it feel? ; Truman revisited ; David : unreality show ; Lori : Charley's mom ; Ethan : the otherness of other people -- The social life of madness. The madding crowd ; Samir : poking around the brain ; Jada : very pregnant ; Jane : the queen ; Hell is other people ; John : the academic ; Do delusions foster violence? ; Calvin : Othello in New York ; Belief unhinged ; Simone : the pope ; When life imitates art ; Lawrence : artificial intelligence ; Beyond belief ; Benjamin : misperceptions ; Benjamin : building trust ; Kevin : the Olympian.
"Combining extraordinary true stories with the latest research, Joel and Ian Gold take us on a wild journey through the delusional brain to explore the intersection of neuroscience, biology, and culture"-- Provided by publisher.