{"product_id":"suspicious-minds-how-culture-shapes-madness-9781439181560","title":"Suspicious Minds: How Culture Shapes Madness","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \"clear, witty, and engaging\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e) journey through the brain that connects neuroscience, biology, and culture. An \"intellectual landmark\" (Edward Shorter, \u003ci\u003eLiterary Review of Canada\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe current view of delusions--the strange beliefs held by people with schizophrenia and other psychiatric illnesses--is that they are the result of biology gone awry, of neurons in the brain misfiring. In \u003ci\u003eSuspicious Minds, \u003c\/i\u003eDr. Joel Gold and his brother Ian Gold argue that delusions are the result of the interaction between the brain and the social world. They present \"a dual broadside: against a psychiatric profession that has become infatuated with neuroscience as part of its longstanding attempt to establish itself as 'real medicine, ' and against a culture that has become too networked for its own good\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e). The book \"amounts to nothing less than a frontal--or perhaps pre-frontal--challenge to the dominant view of modern psychiatry, which looks to neuroscience to explain disorders of the mind\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \"a droll Oliver Sacksian tone\" \u003ci\u003e(The Village Voice), \u003c\/i\u003e the Golds reveal intriguing case studies\u003ci\u003e: \u003c\/i\u003ethe man who was dead and in hell, the woman who could raise the dead at Ground Zero, the man who killed God, and the people who believed they were like the characters in the film \u003ci\u003eThe Truman Show.\u003c\/i\u003e These \"page-turning case studies\" (\u003ci\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/i\u003e) of delusion \"offer a fascinating and intimate portrait of psychosis\" (\u003ci\u003eScientific American\u003c\/i\u003e). \"They provide more proof that no fantasist can hope to match the wonders--and horrors--of the human mind\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoel Gold, MD, is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the New York University School of Medicine. He is in private practice in Manhattan. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIan Gold, PhD, is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Psychiatry at McGill University.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Free Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50515217383698,"sku":"9781439181560","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_53e5ec19-328f-4765-9aa1-b04c66a8c243.jpg?v=1731000523","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/suspicious-minds-how-culture-shapes-madness-9781439181560","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}