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Three Christs Of Ypsilanti (Paperback, Main)
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Three Christs Of Ypsilanti (Paperback, Main)
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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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