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Mar 29, 2021 · Delusion of control: This refers to the belief that an external entity is controlling your thoughts, behaviors, and impulses. This entity may be an individual like a manager, a group, or some undefined force. Delusion of grandiosity: This is an exaggerated or inflated self-belief regarding power, fame, knowledge, skill, talent, or strength. For ...
Aug 19, 2020 · Beliefs have a social purpose. To understand delusions, let’s focus on why they’re so often about other people. At first glance, delusional beliefs appear to be irrational. People with psychosis might believe that the prime minister is watching them through the television, or neighbours are poisoning them, or colleagues have hired a hitman ...
Apr 3, 2019 · Abstract. In this article, I illuminate ongoing debates about the normative status of indoctrination via close examination of recent work in the philosophy of psychiatry and, more particularly, delusion. Here it has been argued, contrary to the established view that delusional states of mind are epistemically problematic, that delusions can (at ...
- Ruth J. Wareham
- 2019
One person is ultimately seen as delusional whereas the other is not. It is argued that the basis on which this `resolution' occurs is a power asymmetry. In situations of undecidable conflict, the most powerful party's views are counted as real and the less powerful party's are discounted as delusions.
- Derrol Palmer
- 2000
Sep 17, 2020 · The dominant conception of delusion in psychiatry (in textbooks, research papers, diagnostic manuals, etc.) is predominantly epistemic. Delusions are almost always characterized in terms of their epistemic defects, i.e., defects with respect to evidence, reasoning, judgment, etc. However, there is an individualistic bias in the epistemic conception; the alleged epistemic defects and ...
- Kengo Miyazono, Alessandro Salice, Alessandro Salice
- 2021
Sep 16, 2009 · Delusion. First published Wed Sep 16, 2009; substantive revision Wed May 4, 2022. This entry focuses on clinical delusions. Although the nature of delusions is controversial, delusions are often characterised as unusual beliefs that appear in the context of mental distress. Indeed, clinical delusions are a symptom of psychiatric disorders such ...
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Sep 29, 2023 · Summary. False consciousness is the idea that those from subordinate sectors of society systematically hold beliefs that are caused by the distortions of those in power in society and that these beliefs ultimately keep the subordinate in their subordinate conditions. Although Marx himself did not originate the idea of class consciousness, he ...
