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Mind Hacks: Unreality TV and the culture of delusions

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Mind Hacks: Unreality TV and the culture of delusions
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Today's New York Times has an interesting article on the tug-of-war over the cultural influence on paranoid delusions and whether contemporary-themed psychosis is a new form of mental illness or just a modern colouring of an old disorder.

The article focuses on the recent interest in the 'Truman Show delusion', splashed over the media by two Canadian psychiatrists.


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