Suspicious Minds: How Culture Shapes Madness

Suspicious Minds: How Culture Shapes Madness

A â€œclear, witty, and engagingâ€ (The Boston Globe) journey through the brain that connects neuroscience, biology, and culture. An â€œintellectual landmarkâ€ (Edward Shorter, Literary Review of Canada).

The current view of delusionsâ€”the strange beliefs held by people with schizophrenia and other psychiatric illnessesâ€”is that they are the result of biology gone awry, of neurons in the brain misfiring. In Suspicious Minds, Dr. Joel Gold and his brother Ian Gold argue that delusions are the result of the interaction between the brain and the social world. They present â€œa dual broadside: against a psychiatric profession that has become infatuated with neuroscience as part of its longstanding attempt to establish itself as â€˜real medicine,â€™ and against a culture that has become too networked for its own goodâ€ (The New York Times). The book â€œamounts to nothing less than a frontalâ€”or perhaps pre-frontalâ€”challenge to the dominant view of modern psychiatry, which looks to neuroscience to explain disorders of the mindâ€ (The Washington Post).

In â€œa droll Oliver Sacksian toneâ€ (The Village Voice), the Golds reveal intriguing case studies: the man who was dead and in hell, the woman who could raise the dead at Ground Zero, the man who killed God, and the people who believed they were like the characters in the film The Truman Show. These â€œpage-turning case studiesâ€ (New Republic) of delusion â€œoffer a fascinating and intimate portrait of psychosisâ€ (Scientific American). â€œThey provide more proof that no fantasist can hope to match the wondersâ€”and horrorsâ€”of the human mindâ€ (The Washington Post).
Country USA
Brand Free Press
Manufacturer Free Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber illustrations
ReleaseDate 2015-07-21
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781439181560

Country	USA
Brand	Free Press
Manufacturer	Free Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	illustrations
ReleaseDate	2015-07-21
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781439181560

Suspicious Minds: How Culture Shapes Madness

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