16Jul/120
The Three Christs of Ypsilanti
When three psychiatric patients all think they're Jesus Christ, you've got a great new sitcom on your hands.
The Three Christs of Ypsilanti (1964) is a book-length psychiatric case study by Milton Rokeach, concerning his experiment on a group of three paranoid schizophrenic patients at Ypsilanti State Hospital in Ypsilanti, Michigan. The book details the interactions of the three patients, Clyde Benson, Joseph Cassel, and Leon Gabor, who each believed himself to be Jesus Christ. [...read more]

