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Delusions in the two-factor theory: pathological or adaptive?

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 2020
In this paper we ask whether the two-factor theory of delusions is compatible with two claims, that delusions are pathological and that delusions are adaptive. We concentrate on two recent and influential models of the two-factor theory: the one proposed
Eugenia Lancellotta, Lisa Bortolotti
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Hallucinations and Delusions as Low-Quality Attributions: Influencing Factors and Proposal for Their Analysis

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
Hallucinations and delusions, in keeping with the distress accompanying them, are major features in the diagnosis of psychosis in international classifications. In spite of their human and clinical importance, the concepts are unclear.
Juan F. Rodríguez-Testal   +2 more
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A narrative review of religious beliefs in schizophrenic patients: Recommendations for psychiatric nurses [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Nursing Reports in Clinical Practice, 2023
One area of interest in recent years has been the relationship between schizophrenia and religious. Religious beliefs in schizophrenic patients can take many forms. In this paper interactional effects of religion and schizophrenia are discussed.
Amir Hossein Goudarzian
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Human Rights and Democracy—Obligations and Delusions

open access: yesPhilosophies, 2022
Based on today’s compromises with human rights and the numerous violations of them, which for several countries seems to be the rule rather than an exception, this article discusses the cause of the delusions that in today’s politics are attached to ...
Hans Kolstad
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Association between stroke and psychosis across four nationally representative psychiatric epidemiological studies

open access: yesBJPsych Open, 2023
Background Both stroke and psychosis are independently associated with high levels of disability. However, psychosis in the context of stroke has been under-researched.
Vaughan Bell   +4 more
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The detection of intentional contingencies in simple animations in patients with delusions of persecution [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Background. It has been proposed that delusions of persecution are caused by the tendency to over-attribute malevolent intentions to other people's actions.
Bazin, N.   +3 more
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Economic Evaluation of Healthcare Resource Utilization and Costs for Newly Diagnosed Dementia-Related Psychosis

open access: yesGeriatrics, 2022
This retrospective cohort study described changes in all-cause healthcare resource utilization (HCRU) and associated costs in dementia patients newly diagnosed with psychosis.
Nazia Rashid   +3 more
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What Makes Delusions Pathological? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Bortolotti argues that we cannot distinguish delusions from other irrational beliefs in virtue of their epistemic features alone. Although her arguments are convincing, her analysis leaves an important question unanswered: What makes delusions ...
Petrolini, Valentina
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COVID-19 pandemic and first episode of psychosis: Clinical characteristics

open access: yesEuropean Psychiatry, 2021
Introduction The rapid spread of the SARS‐CoV‐2 pandemic among the world poses challenges to the management of both physical and mental health. This unexpected situation could predict an exacerbation of anxiety, depressions, obsessions, and even ...
L. Brahmi   +5 more
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Can Dispositionalism About Belief Vindicate Doxasticism About Delusion? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Clinical delusions have traditionally been characterized as beliefs in psychiatry. However, philosophers have recently engaged with the empirical literature and produced a number of objections to the so-called doxastic status of delusion, stemming mainly
Porcher, José Eduardo
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