Resenha do livro Arctic Madness: The Anthropology of a Delusion, de Pierre Déléage, publicada em 2020.

objectives: new cognitive theories of delusions have proposed that deficit or bias in inference stage (a stage of normal belief formation) is significant in delusion formation. the aim of this study was predicting the severity of delusions based on jumping-to-conclusion bias in patients with schizophrenia. methods: the sample consisted of 60 deluded patients with schizophrenia who were selected...

Sociodemographic, clinical, marital and sexual characteristics of 50 consecutive patients having delusions of infidelity were studied. Females outnumbered males after excluding alcoholics. Most of the patients were older than 30 yrs. and the onset occured more than 20 yrs. after marriage in about half the patients. Male patients were more often eldest siblings as compared to females. About one ...

To what extent do self-deception and delusion overlap? In this paper we argue that both self-deception and delusions can be understood in folk-psychological terms. "Motivated" delusions, just like self-deception, can be described as beliefs driven by personal interests. If self-deception can be understood folk-psychologically because of its motivational component, so can motivated delusions. No...

Concern for the environment and a move towards ―sustainable development‖ has assisted progress in a wide range of renewable energy technologies in recent years. The science suggests that a transition from fossil fuels to sustainable sources of energy in a time frame commensurate with the demise of the fossil fuels and prevention of runaway climate change is needed. However, while the movement t...

reported in the Lancet of 1877 makes no mention of pernicious anaemia nor of koilonychia, a feature in any event not associated with pernicious anaemia. Treves was a many-sided man whose achievements were considerable and varied. In addition to his published work, manuscript sources are available and, in the future, further study of these is likely to provide more understanding of what may seem...

1 The varying answers given to the single question of whether the mind is pure by nature or defiled by nature form a convenient lenses through which to view the development of Yogācāra thought. If the mind is pure, then where do the defilements originate? If it is defiled, where does purity originate? Though the classical formulation of Asaṇga and Vasubandhu sees consciousness as paratantric, t...