suspicious minds

Suspicious Minds is a good start for those who want to understand madness or psychosis in the modern sense, because it attempts to answer the first, deepest, and most common questions in psychiatry: What are delusions? What are their limits? And why might delusions be systematic or fixed in one form or specific content in some patients, while they are not in other patients? There is no doubt that psychiatrists are aware of most of these facts, but what is new in the book is its uniqueness in presenting the role that societal culture plays in shaping delusions and then madness.