The three christs of Ypsilanti: a psychological study

✍ Scribed by Rokeach, Milton

• Publisher: Frances Lincoln [distributor], New York Review Books
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 208 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1590173988

✦ Synopsis

The problem of identity -- Who they were -- "That's your belief, sir" -- Through the looking glass -- Days and nights at Ypsilanti -- The rotating chairmanship -- Exit Dr. Rex -- R.I.D. -- Protecting the stronghold -- The flora and the fauna commission -- The problem of authority -- Enter Madame Dung -- Madame God makes a few suggestions -- A research assistant becomes God -- The lonely duel -- Dad makes a few suggestions -- The loyalty test -- Reports to nobody -- The striving for goodness and for greatness -- Epilogue.;At Ypsilanti State Hospital in 1959, the social psychologist Milton Rokeach brought together three paranoid schizophrenics. The men had one thing in common: each believed himself to be Jesus Christ. Their meeting and the two years they spent in one another's company serves as the basis for an investigation into the nature of human identity, belief, and delusion.