The Three Christs of Ypsilanti Author:Milton Rokeach In the state mental hospital at Ypsilanti, Michigan, are three men - a farmer, a clerk, and an electrician - each of whom believes that he is Jesus Christ. What impelled them to renounce their real identities? What led them to adopt the name that symbolizes the greatest and the best in man? And would they give up their delusions if they were ... more »brought face to face? These are the questions the social psychologist Milton Rokeach set out to explore when he undertook the investigation described in this book. What happened to the three Christs during the two years they lived together is told mainly in their own words. Their story presents a poignant and fascinating picture of three lost men and at the same time constitutes a major psychological study which reaches to the very roots of the human personality.« less