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Tutto ebbe inizio quando Milton Rokeach, psicologo sociale dell'ospedale pubblico della città di Ypsilanti, Michigan, decise di riunire nello stesso posto tre schizofrenici di tipo paranoide: Clyde Benson, un contadino settantenne con gravi problemi di alcolismo; Joseph Cassel, uno scrittore fallito internato per deliri e violenza domestica e infine Leon Gabor, un seminarista mancato e veterano della Seconda guerra mondiale. I tre uomini avevano una cosa in comune. Credevano tutti di essere Gesù Cristo. Il loro straordinario incontro e i due anni trascorsi insieme condividendo i pasti, i turni in cucina, in lavanderia e le riunioni quotidiane sono la base per un'affascinante investigazione sulla natura delle credenze e delle esistenze umane. Un eccentrico viaggio all'interno della definitiva contraddizione concepibile per un essere umano: trovarsi di fronte a qualcuno che reclama la tua stessa identità. Svelando un talento da romanziere, Milton Rokeach ci guida nelle tormentate vite dei tre uomini, consegnandoci molto più che un freddo resoconto analitico.
- ISBN: 8860442834
- Casa Editrice: Fandango Libri
- Pagine: 492
- Data di uscita: 29-11-2012
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A hypnotic, lyric, ethically dubious case study of 3 paranoid schizophrenics who all think they're Christ. Rokeach, a psychologist who had the Three Christs come together in a mental hospital in the early '60s, is a gifted writer of character, and raises fascinating questions of identity and belief. Leggi tutto
Three schizophrenics—Clyde, Joseph, and Leon—are brought together in a Michigan state mental institution in 1959 (before the onset of the devastating 'deinstitutionalization' that Rick Moody laments in his introduction). Each one believes he is God, in some manifestation: either originary or reincar Leggi tutto
4.25 Stars — An extraordinary story, that is remarkably human & is able to touch on rarely well done components of modern society well and without a notion of judgement. I laughed, I yelled, I mourned and I rejoiced. The writing is expertly-acute and I couldn’t put this one down for long. Three adult Leggi tutto
The Three Christs of Ypsilanti is an early psychology case study involving three men in Ypsilanti State Hospital who think they are Jesus. The problem with reading this now is that it seems unethical and cruel, mostly because it is unethical and cruel. I had to keep reminding myself that this was an Leggi tutto
This is a remarkable, utterly unique book focusing on a (somewhat ethically questionable) experiment of putting three schizophrenics who all thought of themselves as being Jesus Christ into a focus group; and seeing what happened. Despite being a fairly serious psychological study, it's thoughtfully Leggi tutto
Kind of amusing, maybe something you need to read as a psychologist but probably not?
Rokeach, a social psychologist, attempts to take seriously the claims of his paranoid schizophrenic patients, three men who (mutually exclusively) identify as the reincarnation of Jesus Christ. He is inspired by what Voltaire said of Simon Morin , that being introduced to another who also believed hi Leggi tutto
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