The article presents the main concepts for defining and describing delusions delusional ideas used in modern clinical psychiatry philosophy of psychiatry. Their analysis comparison are carried out, differences psychiatric philosophical understanding indicated. It is demonstrated that considers inaccessible to understanding, therefore them purely as a symptom mental disorder. author proposes rec...

In this paper we illustrate the potential of the repertory grid technique as an instrument for case formulation and understanding of the personal perception and meanings of people with a diagnosis of psychotic disorders. For this purpose, the case of James is presented: A young man diagnosed with schizophrenia and personality disorder, with severe persecutory delusions and other positive sympto...

Optimism is generally accepted by psychiatrists, psychologists and other caring professionals as a feature of mental health. Interventions typically rely on cognitive-behavioural tools to encourage individuals to 'stop negative thought cycles' and to 'challenge unhelpful thoughts'. However, evidence suggests that most individuals have persistent biases of optimism and that excessive optimism is...

Humans are not ants, but we often trudge together along the same trail, neglecting to look around for alternatives. Mass delusions involve large groups holding false or exaggerated beliefs for sustained periods. Humanity has a long, sorry list of these shadow-the-leader epidemics of collective consciousness which appear obviously wrong only in hindsight. Some last for centuries: early alchemist...

Acknowledgments: The authors are grateful to Katherine Herdman for technical assistance. Abstract Rationale Frequent cannabis use is a risk marker for schizophrenia and delusions, but the neurocognitive mechanisms of this relationship remain unclear. Objectives We sought evidence that cannabis users have deficits in processing relationships between meaningful stimuli, similar to abnormalities r...

This article devises a social hermeneutical framework to make sense of the problem conflict polarized ideologies. First, it discusses irrationality in belief and behavior, arguing for contextual non-reductionist account rationality. Second, shows how approach can provide useful toolbox epistemology. Third, drawing from Paul Ricœur’s notions interpretations constitutive pathological ideologies, ...

Experimental research is increasingly important in developing the understanding of paranoid thinking. An assessment measure of persecutory ideation is necessary for such work. We report the reliability and validity of the first state measure of paranoia: The State Social Paranoia Scale. The items in the measure conform to a recent definition in which persecutory thinking has the 2 elements of f...

The present study seeks to revisit the concept of intertextuality as integrated into a sociocognitive discourse-analytical perspective, whereby intertextual meanings can be explicated via semantic macropropositions, mental representations, event models, and pragmatic context models. study’s significance derives from its scholarly endeavour demonstrate how rhetorical are cognitively explicable i...

The main purpose of the present study was to examine implicit and explicit self-esteem (SE) in patients with persecutory delusions. In samples of paranoid patients, depressed patients, and healthy controls, implicit SE was assessed using the experimental go/no-go association task, whereas explicit SE was measured using 2 self-reporting questionnaires: the self-worth subscale of the World Assump...