like ananxietydisorder, majordepression, or bipolar disorder and trouble functioning socially or generally. People who are at risk for developing a psychotic disorder as the result of having a close relative wit
claim would be that at least some elabo- rated delusions can be judged epistemically innocent in the right circumstances on the basis that they are epistemically beneficial in some way (despite being epistemi- cally costly at the same time) and that they satisfy the "no alternatives" ...
On the other hand, when a patient with brain damage caused by a car accident believes that his father was replaced by an imposter or another patient with schizophrenia believes that “The Organization” painted the shops on a street in red and green to convey a message, these beliefs are ...
account of function then, we can ascribe functions to monothematic delusions even whilst recognizing that these functions are often not performed or even never performed (from here I often drop the 'monothe- matic' but should be read as referring to these delusions in particular, see Sect. ...
Perceptions that have no basis in external stimulation are called: a. hallucinations b. delusions c. obsessions d. compulsions Psychosis: Psychosis is a mental health crisis that involves a person not existing within the normal confines of society as ...
Delusions are fixed and false beliefs that conflict with reality. Some types of delusions are erotomanic, grandiose, somatic, persecutory, jealous, and mixed.Answer and Explanation: The correct answer is C. that involves the belief that something highly abnormal is happening to one's body. ...
Are they, in this respect, more self-deception-like or more like typical delusions? I hope to be able to make clear, by way of appeal to my account of self- deception, why we should go for the former and not the latter. With that in mind, let us turn to my account of self-...
This is just one example. The reality is that almost all Chinese companies have been built on stolen technology. Huawei, for example, is one of the biggest technology companies in the world. Huawei invented precisely nothing — all the foundational technologies were either “gratuitously” transferr...
Bentall and Kaney 1996; Enoch and Trethowan 1991), psychodynamic accounts of delusions and psychoanalytic theory more in general are usually dismissed by contemporary mainstream psychiatry as a relic of folk psychology with no scientific basis (Ellis 2003; Stone and Young 1997). This is mirrored by...
Yet even in those countries that putatively achieved "universal" public-sector healthcare rights and access, especially in the post World War II era, universality (has) remained an aspiration rather than a reality. Whether particular types of care are not, or are inad- equately, covered—for...