The Truman Show delusion: Psychosis in the global village

Cognitive Neuropsychiatry

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 455-472

  Gold, Joel ^a   Gold, Ian ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Culture; Delusion; Grandiosity; Ideas of reference; Persecution; Reality television

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISEASE COURSE; GRANDIOSE DELUSION; HUMAN; INTERNET; PERSECUTORY DELUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELEVISION VIEWING; TRUMAN SHOW DELUSION;

ADULT; CULTURE; DELUSIONS; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; TELEVISION;

EID: 84869836911     PISSN: 13546805     EISSN: 14640619     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13546805.2012.666113     Document Type: Article

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