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“Those crazy knight-errants”: ideals and delusions in Arthur Conan Doyle’s portrait of a fourteenth century knight

open access: yesJournal of English Studies, 2013
In The White Company (1891) and Sir Nigel (1906), Arthur Conan Doyle reconstructed the fourteenth century and explored the culture and visions of chivalry.
Antonio José Miralles Pérez
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The Multivariable Multiaxial Suggestibility Inventory-2 (MMSI-2): A Psychometric Alternative to Measure and Explain Supernatural Experiences

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
This paper presents the English adaptation of the Multivariable Multiaxial Suggestibility Inventory-2 (MMSI-2), a questionnaire developed specifically for psychological assessment and prediction of anomalous phenomena.
Álex Escolà-Gascón   +2 more
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Thinking Preferences and Conspiracy Belief: Intuitive Thinking and the Jumping to Conclusions-Bias as a Basis for the Belief in Conspiracy Theories

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry, 2020
BackgroundThe belief in conspiracy theories and paranoid ideation are often treated as almost synonymous. However, there is to date no research concerning shared underlying cognitive underpinnings of belief in conspiracy theories and paranoid ideation ...
Nico Pytlik   +3 more
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No common factor for illusory percepts, but a link between pareidolia and delusion tendency: A test of predictive coding theory

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2023
Predictive coding theory is an influential view of perception and cognition. It proposes that subjective experience of the sensory information results from a comparison between the sensory input and the top-down prediction about this input, the latter ...
Magdalena Lhotka   +6 more
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Why the idea of framework propositions cannot contribute to an understanding of delusions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
One of the tasks that recent philosophy of psychiatry has taken upon itself is to extend the range of understanding to some of those aspects of psychopathology that Jaspers deemed beyond its limits.
B. A. Maher   +25 more
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Delusions Are Beliefs (Just Not the Kind You Thought)

open access: yesAnálisis Filosófico
The idea that delusions are beliefs is supported by the observation that delusions, similarly to beliefs, are used in reasoning. However, delusions also exhibit other features that are difficult to explain under this doxastic view—they ...
Rajeev R. Dutta, B.S.
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"Joe Annie Street" [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
A short critical fiction, derived from my experience of the demolition of my studio & home on Joe Annie Street, Houston, TX, placed in the context of a political/philosophical reflection on the "destructive character" (Benjamin) and the performative ...
Birringer, J
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Delusions of parasitosis

open access: yesIndian Journal of Dermatology, 2013
Patients with delusions of parasitosis (DOP) are more commonly recognized in dermatology practices today. However, dermatologists may feel uncomfortable treating these patients because of the psychiatric nature of their disorder. As a result of the fact that DOP patients strongly prefer to seek treatment from dermatologists rather than mental health ...
Jillian W Wong, John YM Koo
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The Clinical Features of Paranoia in the 20th Century and Their Representation in Diagnostic Criteria From DSM-III Through DSM-5 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This review traces, through psychiatric textbooks, the history of the Kraepelinian concept of paranoia in the 20th century and then relates the common reported symptoms and signs to the diagnostic criteria for paranoia/delusional disorder in DSM-III ...
Kendler, Kenneth S.
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The Classification, Definition, and Ontology of Delusion [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Although delusion is one of the central concepts of psychopathology, it stills eludes precise conceptualization. In this paper, I present certain basic issues concerning the classification and definition of delusion, as well as its ontological status ...
Porcher, José Eduardo
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