LeadershipJournal.net – Leader’s Insight: Curing Grandiosity (Part 2)
Leader’s Insight: Curing Grandiosity (Part 2) I’m no Superman. So why do I feel the need to do the impossible? by John Ortberg, guest columnist Psychologist Milton Rokeach wrote a book called The Three Christs of Ypsilanti. He described his attempts to treat three patients at a psychiatric hospital in Ypsilanti, Michigan, who suffered from delusions of grandeur. Each believed he was unique among humankind; he had been called to save the world; he was the messiah. They were full-blown cases of grandiosity, in its pure form. Rokeach found it difficult to break through, to help the patients accept the truth about their identity. So he decided to put the three into a little community, to see if rubbing against people who also claimed to be the messiah might dent their delusion. A kind of messianic, 12-step recovery group.
