Suspicious minds
Subtitle: how culture shapes madness
By: Joel Gold and Ian Gold
Contributors: Gold, Ian, 1962- author
Edition: First Free Press hardcover edition.
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9781439181553
Subjects: Mental illness; Social psychiatry; Cultural psychiatry
Other titles: How culture shapes madness
Description: "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"--
Notes: "The Truman Show delusion and other strange beliefs"--Jacket.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-304) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Truman Show delusion; title: 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; title: 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.