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Gold, Joel (Joel Todd), author.

Suspicious minds : how culture shapes madness / Joel Gold and Ian Gold.

First Free Press hardcover edition.

New York : Free Press, 2014.

xix, 321 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

"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.

Cultural psychiatry.

Social psychiatry.

Mental illness.

Gold, Ian, 1962- author.

How culture shapes madness

"The Truman Show delusion and other strange beliefs"--Jacket.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-304) and index.

The Truman Show delusion -- The sleep of reason. A short history of madness ; James Tilly Matthews : the air loom ; Donald : depression and damnation ; Louis : hell on Earth ; One hundred years of delusion ; Friedrich Krauss : a hot metal disk ; Ruby : all dressed up and nowhere to go ; How does it feel? ; Truman revisited ; David : unreality show ; Lori : Charley's mom ; Ethan : the otherness of other people -- The social life of madness. The madding crowd ; Samir : poking around the brain ; Jada : very pregnant ; Jane : the queen ; Hell is other people ; John : the academic ; Do delusions foster violence? ; Calvin : Othello in New York ; Belief unhinged ; Simone : the pope ; When life imitates art ; Lawrence : artificial intelligence ; Beyond belief ; Benjamin : misperceptions ; Benjamin : building trust ; Kevin : the Olympian.

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