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- Title
Delusion Formation.
- Authors
Fadai, Farbod
- Abstract
Introduction: Delusions are present in 120 different psychiatric, neurologic, and general medical diseases and are from among the most important symptoms in medicine. However, no proper theory has been presented about the formation, structure, and content of this particular symptom that suits every individual patient. Method: The selection of a reference of comparison (i.e. the normal process of thinking) is the most primary methodological task to which the cognitive processes of patients with delusional disorders must be compared. To this end, the hypotheses that compare the apparent logics in delusions with formal logic measures were studied. In this respect, the psychodynamic, neurologic, and organic pathology of delusion as well as sensory deprivation, social isolation, socio-economic shortcomings, and personality disorders were thoroughly considered. Conclusion: An encompassing and general model of delusion formation can be summarized as follows: “there is no major difference between cognitive processes in delusion formation and the ones that form non-delusional beliefs. It is better to regard delusions as theories that are similar to scientific theories at the service of offering explanations that covey meaning and order to the experimental data". This model possesses numerous sections addressed in the full text.
- Subjects
DELUSIONS; SENSORY deprivation; PERSONALITY disorders; SOCIAL isolation
- Publication
Iranian Journal of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences / Progress in Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, 2018, p162
- ISSN
1735-8639
- Publication type
Article