In 1998, Jim Carrey starred in "The Truman Show" — a film about a man
who doesn't know his entire world is a television set being broadcast
to millions.
Within months, psychiatrists began documenting cases of patients who
believed their real lives were being filmed in exactly this way.
This episode explores the documented psychiatric phenomenon: What
patients experience. Why it's called the Truman Show Delusion. Whether
the film created the delusion or gave language to something that already
existed. And what it reveals about how culture shapes mental illness.
Does art imitate mental illness, or does mental illness imitate art?
WHAT IS BEHIND THE CURTAIN?
The stories behind the stories. The dark, overlooked, and often stranger
truths hiding beneath pop culture's surface.
Part of Arcane Storyteller.
New Episodes every Tuesday.
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