Suspicious minds how culture shapes madness gold joel gold ian 9781439181560 amazoncom books buy new 1800 free shipping on orders over 2500 shipped by amazon arrives tuesday jan 19 ships from amazoncom. Suspicious minds how culture shapes madness is an ambitious and fascinating work on the nature of delusions which are defined by dsm 5 the latest version of the diagnostic and statistical manual the standard reference for classifying mental disorders as fixed beliefs that are not amenable to change in the light of conflicting evidence. Suspicious minds how culture shapes madness joel gold ian gold limited preview 2015 common . Navigating a middle ground between neuroscience and psychology the authors of suspicious minds how culture shapes madness construct a novel perspective on the meaning of specific delusions and the interplay of modern society with what they posit to be a fundamental tendency of the human mind to be suspicious their jumping off point is the infrequently encountered delusion that one is like