How to Understand the Formation of Delusional Beliefs: A Proposal
作者:
P. Jørgensen,
J. Jensen,
期刊:
Psychopathology
(Karger Available online 1994)
卷期:
Volume 27,
issue 1-2
页码: 64-72
ISSN:0254-4962
年代: 1994
DOI:10.1159/000284850
出版商: S. Karger AG
数据来源: Karger
摘要:
The formation of delusional beliefs is elucidated by the expressed experiences of 75 delusional patients. It is found that such beliefs may develop regardless of the presence (64%) or absence (20%) of anomalous experiences. Patients within the same diagnostic category remember it very differently. Many patients (71%) find a simple and reassuring way of understanding and relating to the external world by the formation of delusional beliefs. To many patients (47%) the delusional theme remains unchanged from the start and from one psychotic episode to another, while to other patients (24%) the theme changes in a hierarchical way. It is suggested that the formation of delusional beliefs is caused by impaired two-way communication or metathinking and that the delusional theme indicates the severity of cognitive dysfunction or mental disorder.
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