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Suspicious minds : how culture shapes madness / Joel Gold and Ian Gold.
Van Pelt Library RC455.4.E8 G65 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gold, Joel (Joel Todd)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cultural psychiatry.
- Social psychiatry.
- Mental illness.
- Mental Disorders--ethnology.
- Ethnopsychology.
- Mental Disorders--psychology.
- Medical Subjects:
- Mental Disorders--ethnology.
- Ethnopsychology.
- Mental Disorders--psychology.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 321 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Free Press hardcover edition.
- Other Title:
- How culture shapes madness
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Free Press, 2014.
- Summary:
- "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.
- Contents:
- Part I The Sleep of Reason
- 1 A Short History of Madness 17
- James Tilly Matthews: The Air Loom 26
- Donald: Depression and Damnation 40
- Louis: Hell on Earth 53
- 2 One Hundred Years of Delusion 59
- Friedrich Krauss: A Hot Metal Disk 67
- Ruby: All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go 83
- How Does It Feel? 92
- Truman Revisited: 101
- David: Unreality Show 101
- Lori: Charley's Mom 103
- Ethan: The Otherness of Other People 107
- Part II The Social Life of Madness
- 3 The Madding Crowd 115
- Samir: Poking Around the Brain 129
- Jada: Very Pregnant 137
- Jane: The Queen 151
- 4 Hell Is Other People 157
- John: The Academic 167
- Do Delusions Foster Violence? 178
- Calvin: Othello in New York 185
- 5 Belief Unhinged 191
- Simone: The Pope 197
- When Life Imitates Art 207
- Lawrence: Artificial Intelligence 213
- 6 Beyond Belief 219
- Benjamin: Misperceptions 221
- Benjamin: Building Trust 226
- Kevin: The Olympian 234.
- Notes:
- "The Truman Show delusion and other strange beliefs"--Jacket.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-302) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781439181553
- 1439181551
- OCLC:
- 741542704
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