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  1. 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. It is reflected in the full psychosis continuum model, guides psychological and ...

  2. Sep 26, 2022 · Delusions can precipitate in isolation or as psychiatric sequelae of ongoing disease. Delusions must be appropriately identified and managed as they can result in dire complications. This activity describes the identification, evaluation, and management of delusions, by an interprofessional team, in facilitating and improving care for patients with this condition.

    • Kamron A. Fariba, Fatma Fawzy
    • 2022/09/26
  3. May 3, 2022 · Delusions are best understood as strongly individualised and inherently complex phenomena emerging from a dynamic interplay between interdependent subpersonal, personal, interpersonal, and sociocultural processes. Integrative approaches to research on delusion, which consider their potential adaptiveness and favour explanatory pluralism, might be advantageous. Effective clinical care for ...

  4. Apr 10, 2024 · 1. Hallucinations and delusions are part of a normal distribution of human diversity; their mere presence does not indicate psychosis or psychiatric illness. 2. The ubiquity of hallucinatory and ...

  5. Aug 3, 2021 · Clarifying how delusional realities might differ from standard reality would offer an important corrective to the standard approach to delusion as an empirical false belief, with implications for diagnostic assessment, explanatory research, and clinical practice. 3 Moreover, knowledge of how shifts in reality experience are recognised, valued, and dealt with by patients could offer a deeper ...

    • Jasper Feyaerts, Jasper Feyaerts, Wouter Kusters, Zeno Van Duppen, Stijn Vanheule, Inez Myin-Germeys...
    • 2021
  6. Acknowledging that delusions have meaning and can also give meaning to people’s lives has implications for our understanding of psychotic symptoms and for addressing the stigma associated with psychiatric conditions. Keywords: Delusions, Meaning, Meaningfulness, Phenomenology, Cognitive psychology, Sense of coherence, Creativity.

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  8. Feb 8, 2017 · Delusions may represent attempts by the individual to garner some social capital 118; the evolutionary biologist Ed Hagen has argued that, by knowing important information and trying to share it with others, people with delusional disorder may increase their sense of self-worth. 119 Social defeat is an animal paradigm in which defeat to a dominant conspecific engenders a sensitized dopamine ...

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