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- Delusions are commonly conceived as false beliefs that are held with certainty and which cannot be corrected. This conception of delusion has been influential throughout the history of psychiatry and continues to inform how delusions are approached in clinical practice and in contemporary schizophrenia research.
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Jan 21, 2021 · Delusions are commonly conceived as false beliefs that are held with certainty and which cannot be corrected. This conception of delusion has been influential throughout the history of psychiatry and continues to inform how delusions are approached in clinical practice and in contemporary schizophrenia research.
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- The Testimonial Theory of Delusions
- Testimonial Isolation and Testimonial Discount
- Group Identification and Testimonial Discount
In this section, we introduce a new non-individualistic model of the etiology of delusions. Our model provides us with a detailed account of exactly how social abnormalities in schizophrenia causally contribute to some stages of the development of delusions. In its basic form, the model—we call it the “testimonial theory of delusions”—says that del...
The remainder of Sect. 3aims to make our model as credible as possible by filling in the details of the testimonial theory as well as reviewing the relevant evidence supporting it. Let us begin with testimonial isolation, which involves a lack of testimonial interaction with others. It has already been hypothesized that testimonial isolation can ca...
We argued that testimonial discount can be caused by the underestimation of the competence and sincerity of testifiers. And such underestimation can, in turn, be caused by paranoid/grandiose/Truman thoughts and feelings. We now discuss another possible cause of the underestimation of competence and sincerity: the failure of group identification. Ou...
- Kengo Miyazono, Alessandro Salice, Alessandro Salice
- 2021
May 2, 2017 · Delusions can be divided by theme (e.g. persecutory, grandiose), plausibility (bizarre, non-bizarre), relationship to mood (congruent or non-congruent), or along other dimensions. Most patients with delusions have more than one. Delusions and hallucinations frequently co-occur.
Sep 26, 2022 · As per the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of Psychiatric Disorders, delusions are defined as firm and fixed beliefs based on inadequate grounds not amenable to the rational argument or evidence to the contrary and not in sync with regional, cultural, or educational background.
- Kamron A. Fariba, Fatma Fawzy
- 2022/09/26
Jan 18, 2024 · As per the dominant psychiatric conception, some studies indicate that individuals with delusions possess some trait that disposes them to rely inflexibly on their existing beliefs and to be less influenced by new experience than healthy people.
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.
Aug 3, 2021 · Delusions are commonly conceived as false beliefs that result from epistemic failures to represent reality correctly. 1 This view has been dominant throughout the history of psychiatry, 2 and continues to inform contemporary research and practice. 3 In explanatory research, the viewpoint underlies cognitive and neurocognitive attempts to ...
