Suspicious Minds
Language: English
Published by Free Press, 2015
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What if you woke up with the alarming suspicion that you were being watched? One day in 2003, a patient unlike any other that Dr. Joel Gold had seen before was admitted to his unit at Bellevue Hospital. This man claimed he was being filmed constantly and that his life was being broadcast around the world like The Truman Show--the 1998 film depicting a man who is unknowingly living out his life as the star of a popular soap opera. Over the next few years, Dr. Gold saw a number of patients suffering from what he and his brother, Dr. Ian Gold, began calling the Truman Show delusion, launching them on a quest to understand the nature of this particular phenomenon, of delusions more generally, and of madness itself. The current view of delusions is that they are the result of biology gone awry, of neurons in the brain misfiring. In contrast, the Golds argue that delusions are the result of the interaction between the brain and the social world. By exploring the major categories of delusion through fascinating case studies and marshaling the latest research in schizophrenia, the brothers reveal the role of culture and the social world in the development of psychosis--delusions in particular. Suspicious Minds presents a groundbreaking new vision of just how dramatically our surroundings can influence our brains.…
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- Title
- Suspicious Minds
- Author
- Gold J
- Publisher
- Free Press
- Publication year
- 2015
- Condition
- Fair
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 143918156X
- ISBN 13
- 9781439181560
The current view of delusions--the strange beliefs held by people with schizophrenia and other psychiatric illnesses--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 "a dual broadside: against a psychiatric profession that has become infatuated with neuroscience as part of its longstanding attempt to establish itself as 'real medicine, ' and against a culture that has become too networked for its own good" (The New York Times). The book "amounts to nothing less than a frontal--or perhaps pre-frontal--challenge to the dominant view of modern psychiatry, which looks to neuroscience to explain disorders of the mind" (The Washington Post).
In "a droll Oliver Sacksian tone" (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 "page-turning case studies" (New Republic) of delusion "offer a fascinating and intimate portrait of psychosis" (Scientific American). "They provide more proof that no fantasist can hope to match the wonders--and horrors--of the human mind" (The Washington Post).
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About the Author
Ian Gold, PhD, is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Psychiatry at McGill University.
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