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The Three Christs of Ypsilanti
- A Psychological Study
- Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins, Rick Moody
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
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Summary
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 in one another's company serves as the basis for an investigation into the nature of human identity, belief, and delusion that is poignant, amusing, and at times disturbing. Displaying the sympathy and subtlety of a gifted novelist, Rokeach draws us into the lives of three troubled and profoundly different men who find themselves "confronted with the ultimate contradiction conceivable for human beings: more than one person claiming the same identity".
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- Luis Alberto Rangel De Luna
- 02-04-22
reflection
I got depressed but it's a great story recommended if you like psychology and human behavior
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- Ioakimidis Ioakim
- 30-08-19
Repetitive Repetitive Repetitive Repetitive
Absolutely no science whatsoever, just a repetitive verbatim mumbling of (two) schizophrenics for 11 hours.
Naturally it is funny and shocking at times but you get used to it too quickly.
The performance is also rather disappointing.
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