The Three Christs of Ypsilanti

by Milton Rokeach

  reference groups, 24, 190, 193, 309

  reference persons, 24, 190, 229; positive, 191, 192, 194, 195, 196, 219, 229, 239, 284, 323; negative, 191, 192, 195, 219

  referents: external, 32, 191, 193, 195, 196, 208, 219, 286; positive delusional, 197, 198, 199, 208, 229, 285, 286, 298, 300, 320, 323

  regression, 316

  religion, and mental health, 309

  resistance, 321

  ritualistic behavior, 65, 67, 190

  Rogers, Carl, 312

  Rokeach, Milton, 19 n., 318 n.

  Rosenberg, B., 24 n., 25 n.

  Rosenberg, Milton J., 33 n.

  Russell, Bertrand, 314

  Schilder, P., 310 n.

  schizophrenia, 40, 44, 49, 195 n., 286, 289, 298, 309, 310, 311, 321, 336; “double-entry bookkeeping” in, 200, 207–10; philosophy of, 253

  Schreber case, 324

  selective authority, 192, 195

  self: and not-self, boundary between, 289; in schizophrenia, 311

  self-actualization, 312

  self-alienation, 312

  self constancy, 21, 22

  self-realization, 312

  sensory deprivation, 244

  sexual identity, 324, 325, 326, 329

  sexual symbols, 325

  shame, difference from guilt, 326 n., 327

  Shein, Edgar H., 30 n., 194 n.

  Sherif, M., 24 n.

  Shibutani, T., 25 n.

  Smith, M. B., 33 n.

  social isolation, 244

  split personality, 214

  “squelch defense,” 250

  Stehman, Vernon, 36

  Stotland, Ezra, 33 n.

  Suci, G. J., 33 n.

  Sullivan, H. S., 313

  symbolism, theory of, 215, 309

  symbols, sexual, 325

  system of beliefs, 19, 20, 24, 25, 26, 31, 32, 33, 185, 189, 190, 310, 318, 324, 330

  Tannenbaum, P. H., 33 n.

  Taylor, J. E., 323 n.

  Thigpen, C. H., 310 n.

  “thought control,” 31

  thought reform, 30, 194

  “Tom Terrific,” 29

  transference, 23, 32, 195

  Turner, R. H., 25 n.

  twins, identity in, 28

  ulcer, 285, 286

  Voltaire, 34, 314

  voluntary confession, 30

  Weakland, J. H., 284 n.

  Weigert, Edith, 312, 324

  Wells, H. G., 328

  Wheelis, Allen, 313

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  Copyright © 1964 by Milton Rokeach; afterword © 1981 by Milton Rokeach

  Introduction copyright © 2011 by Rick Moody

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  Three lines from Power by Bertand Russell, used by permission of George Allen & Unwin, Ltd.

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Rokeach, Milton.

  The three Christs of Ypsilanti/by Milton Rokeach; introduction by Rick

  Moody.

  p. cm. — (New York review books classics)

  Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1964.

  ISBN 978-1-59017-384-8 (alk. paper)

  1. Belief and doubt—Case studies. 2. Psychology, Pathological—Case studies.

  3. Hallucinations and illusions—Case studies. 4. Attitude (Psychology)—Case

  studies. 5. Schizophrenia—Case studies. 6. Attitude change—Case studies. I.

  Title.

  BF773.R63 2011

  616.89’09—dc22

  2010033641

  Cover image: William C. Weidling, Nature’s Mystic Apparition of Christ, Covington, Kentucky, 1914

  Cover design: Katy Homans

  eISBN 978-1-59017-398-5

  v1.0

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