Milton Rokeach was born in 1918 in the small Polish town of Hrubieszów, into a Jewish family. With only seven years old, he emigrated with his parents to the United States. After completing his elementary studies at Brooklyn College in New York, he enrolled in Psychology at the University of Berkeley, although during World War II he would be forced to abandon his career to serve in the US Air Force Corps of Psychologists. In 1959, while working as a clinical psychologist at the Ypsilanti State Madhouse in Michigan, he came into contact with three paranoid schizophrenia patients who shared the common delusion of believing himself to be Jesus Christ, and decided to confront them in group therapy. The report of this process, which lasted until 1961, was published in 1964 in book form under the title of The Three Christs of Ypsilanti. This text, hitherto unpublished in Spanish, is one of the most interesting, controversial and delusional experiments in the history of psychiatry. The book would later be adapted to cinema, theater and would even inspire two operas. Milton Rokeach received the Kurt Lewin Memorial Award from the Association of American Psychologists in 1984 and the Harold Lasswell Award from the International Society for Political Psychology in 1988. He died of cancer in 1988, in Los Angeles.