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The Three Christs of Ypsilanti (New York Review Books Classics)

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Author Milton Rokeach

Format Paperback

Publisher NYRB Classics

Category Psychology

On July 1, 1959, at Ypsilanti State Hospital in Michigan, the social psychologist Milton Rokeach brought together three paranoid schizophrenics: Clyde Benson, an elderly farmer and alcoholic; Joseph Cassel, a failed writer who was institutionalized after increasingly violent behavior toward his family; and Leon Gabor, a college dropout and veteran of World War II.The men had one thing in common: each believed himself to be Jesus Christ. Their extraordinary meeting and the two years they spent living together serves as the basis for this poignant and often hilarious investigation into the nature of human identity, belief, and delusion. With novelistic momentum and insight, Rokeach takes us into the lives of these three incredible and, despite their common claim, altogether singular personalities who find themselves �confronted with the ultimate contradiction conceivable for human beings: more than one person claiming the same identity.�In scenes of remarkable power and vividness (�I'm telling you I'm God!� �You're not!� �I'm God, Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost! I know what I am. . .�) we see the three Christs argue, proclaim, and soliloquize about the nature of their contentious divinity, and are given a window onto one of the most remarkable psychological case studies on record.

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Milton Rokeach

Additional Info

  • Release Date: 2011-04-19
  • Publisher: NYRB Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781590173848
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