Schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders Disorders that show one of these five features: delusions, hallucinations, disorganized thinking, disorganized or abnormal motor behavior, or inhibited emotional expression. Delusional disorder, brief psychotic disorder, schizophreniform disorder, schizophrenia,...
According to Alford and Beck, cognitive therapy for delusion is similar to cognitive therapy for depressive disorders in emphasising collaborative empiricism and development of therapist-patient trusting relationship. (4) They also discussed the importance of challenging the validity of delusional beliefs ...
Economic thinking would say that cost benefit analysis is absolutely the right approach. But I’ve seen a lot of successful people violate that rule. And I think sometimes you can get better results by ignoring short-term cost versus benefits. The third thing about Rick is he had great judgm...
We advocate an approach in CBT where therapists can use a few culturally appropriate ideas taken from the patient's grossly delusional thinking, and help the patient reframe their frankly delusional thoughts into more culturally or socially accepted ideas....
Many participants reflected on the perceived uncontrollability of distressing, relentless, and hostile voices, which had often been present for many years. Delusional interpretations of voices as being related to external entities often exacerbated perceptions of the control and power of the voices. For...
Described more than a century ago as 'digitalis delirium,' the disorder is characterized by severe agitation, delusional thinking, assaultive behavior, and even death. Digoxin immune Fab therapy was begun because of the fulminant psychiatric manifestations of this toxic state and the clear danger of...
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She's an addict. She has a kind of delusional hope for her life without much of a plan. She struggles to stay connected to other people. She's seems to be generally resigned to her pain. That really weighs heavily on a child. It's very hard not to inherit these patterns from our ...
3 types: Relationship, Obsessional and Delusional Stalking Despite a growing body of research in the past five years, stalking is still very misunderstood by the public, the courts and law enforcement. For practical purposes there are three types of stalking. Relationship stalking occurs when a cou...
The evidence does support massage for anxiety and depression, which is important (much more on this below). Other than that, though, these bullet points range from “exaggerated” to “delusional.” The image was inspired by this equally terrible blog post, which uncritically celebrates and exag...