Three Christs in US theaters January 10, 2020 starring Richard Gere, Julianna Margulies, Walton Goggins, Peter Dinklage. The Three Christs of Ypsilanti: A Narrative Study of Three Lost Men. The book opens with a promising epigraph. With Richard Gere, Peter Dinklage, Walton Goggins, Bradley Whitford. In 1959, psychiatrist Dr. Alan Stone (Richard Gere) arrives at a mental hospital in Ypsilanti, Michigan armed with the radical belief that s Knopf. Three Christs follows Dr. Alan Stone who is treating three paranoid schizophrenic patients at the Ypsilanti State Hospital in Michigan, each of whom believed they were Jesus Christ. $5.95. About The Three Christs of Ypsilanti Now a motion picture starring Richard Gere, Peter Dinklage, Walton Goggins, and Bradley Whitford, and directed by Jon Avnet. by Milton Rokeach. What transpires is both comic and deeply moving. Knopf. Delusions The Three Christs of Ypsilanti: A Narrative Study of Three Lost Men. “Every man would like to be God, if it were possible; some few find it difficult to admit the impossibility.” Among other things it represents, in an unpretentious but remarkably vivid way, what institutionalized madness is like.” —Steven Marcus, The New York Review of Books “A rare and eccentric journey into the madness of not three, but four men in an asylum. The book opens with a promising epigraph. The Three Christs of Ypsilanti is an early psychology case study involving three men in Ypsilanti State Hospital who think they are Jesus. 336 pp. It had served no purpose than to cause undue … by Milton Rokeach. A book was published in 1964 by Rokeach, titled The Three Christs of Ypsilanti, sharing the entirety of his research on the subject of curing delusions. The truth was that the two-year experiment was a failure. The Three Christs of Ypsilanti is a psychiatric case study by Rokeach, a detailing of his experiment with a trio of schizophrenic patients at Ypsilanti State Hospital in Ypsilanti, Michigan. 336 pp. Joseph Cassel (Peter Dinklage) is the product of an abusive upbringing, causing him to seek escape by affecting an English persona with a … The "three Christs" all show distinct personalities. It’s nearly impossible to find for a reasonable price. Directed by Jon Avnet. This was the revelation that led Rokeach to orchestrate his meeting of the Messiahs and document their encounter in the extraordinary (and out-of-print) book from 1964, The Three Christs of Ypsilanti. “The Three Christs of Ypsilanti is more than the record of an experiment in the outermost reaches of social psychology.