{"id":8206,"date":"2012-11-27T13:26:12","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T17:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=8206"},"modified":"2016-08-15T17:09:10","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T21:09:10","slug":"episode-3-milton-rokeachs-the-three-christs-of-ypsilanti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2012\/11\/27\/episode-3-milton-rokeachs-the-three-christs-of-ypsilanti\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 3: Milton Rokeach’s The Three Christs of Ypsilanti<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In the summer of 1959, Milton Rokeach, a social psychologist at Ypsilanti State Hospital in Michigan, brought together three patients: Clyde Benson, Joseph Cassel, and Leon Gabor, each of whom believed himself to be Jesus Christ. Rokeach\u00a0hoped that spending time with others claiming the same identity would shake each man of his delusion, or, as he put it, “my main purpose in bringing them together was to explore the processes by which their delusional systems of belief and their behavior might change if they were confronted with the ultimate contradiction conceivable\u00a0for human beings: more than one person claiming the same identity.” Rokeach observed them for two years, examining the nature of identity. It didn’t seem to help his patients, but it certainly affected them. Originally published in 1964,\u00a0The Three Christs of Ypsilanti<\/em>\u00a0is a fascinating, sad, and disturbing psychological case study that most likely could not be repeated today.<\/p>\n

NYRB Classics published their edition of The Three Christs of Ypsilanti<\/em>\u00a0in April of 2011, and it is the book we will be discussing in Episode 3 of The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast.<\/p>\n

In Episode 4 we will be discussing Sigizmund\u00a0Krzhizhanovsky’s Memories of the Future<\/em>.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/mookse\/mookse003.m4a<\/a><\/audio>\n

Show Notes (1:10:08)<\/p>\n