Suspicious Minds: How Culture Shapes Madness (The Truman Shoe

Suspicious Minds: How Culture Shapes Madness (The Truman Shoe Delusion and Other Strange Beliefs)

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 Showâ€”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 â€œTruman Show delusion,â€ 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 psychosisâ€”delusions in particular. Suspicious Minds presents a groundbreaking new vision of just how dramatically our surroundings can influence our brains.
Country USA
Brand Free Press
Manufacturer Free Press
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2014-07-08
UnitCount 1
UPCs 001439181551
EANs 9781439181553

Country	USA
Brand	Free Press
Manufacturer	Free Press
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2014-07-08
UnitCount	1
UPCs	001439181551
EANs	9781439181553

Suspicious Minds: How Culture Shapes Madness (The Truman Shoe Delusion and Other Strange Beliefs)

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