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Published in Volume 9, Issue 4 - 15. August 2022

Three Christs of Ypsilanti: The Unholy Trinity

Robert M. Kaplan

Affiliation: University of Wollongong, Sydney, Australia

Keywords: Psychotic patients, Unholy, Rokeach, Study, Belief System, Ypsilanti, Michigan

Categories: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Medicine

DOI: 10.17160/josha.9.4.840

Languages: English

Dr Milton Rokeach brought together three psychotic patients at Ypsilanti State Hospital in Michigan for a study. The patients had one notable feature: they all believed they were Jesus Christ. Rokeach specialised in belief systems: how people develop and keep (or change) their beliefs. Read the article to find out if the experiment was successful or failed.

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