"The Truman Show Syndrome" makes people think that they permanently removed in a reality show
If you've seen the film "The Truman Show" with Jim Carrey in the title role, you might remember, on what is based the plot: the hero Kerry - a simple man in the street who has no idea that his every move watched video cameras, and all the moments of his life Live broadcast on television.
There is a mental phenomenon, the opposite of what is described in the film: a man is confident that he is constantly under the eye lenses and believes that the well-known, at least to the whole world.
On one occasion the so-called syndrome show Truman said in his article published in the magazine «New Yorker», Andrew Marantz:
«One day Nick Lotz realized that all his life, since college - one big reality show, and it is surrounded on all sides by hidden cameras. On the day of completion of the project Nick had to call my father, that he found him in the crowd and on stage presented a check for $ 1 million, but when Lotz took the phone and began to dial the number, then realized he was late, and now the camera is never switched off - it All life is a party to the television program ».
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The Truman Show Syndrome - a relatively new phenomenon, but not unique. Here he writes about this Marants:
«technology rapidly changing the way people think about life, and such psychic phenomena already known to science. For example, in the 1940s, some believed that with the help of radio can be manipulated by man, in the 1950s said the same thing about television and satellites, and in the 1970s there was a lot of theories about government experiment to introduce into the brain of computer chips " .
"Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders» (DSM) divides mental disorders into so-called impossible and possible, but false. For example, if a person is sure that is made of glass and can break this nonsense of the first type, and when a woman (unless, of course, this is not some kind of a famous actress) believes that her passionately in love with millions of strangers around the world - it It is possible in principle, but not the truth.
The Truman Show Syndrome belongs to the second group of deviations, but it is not only and not so much mental illness as a sign of our times - a measure of the development of closer links between culture, technology and outlook of one particular person. Joseph Heller wrote in his "Catch-22": "If you're paranoid, it does not mean that you do not look for».
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via factroom.ru
