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When we talk about delusions we may refer to symptoms of mental
health problems, such as clinical delusions in schizophrenia, or
simply the beliefs that people cling to which are implausible and
resistant to counterevidence; these can include anything from
beliefs about the benefits of homeopathy to concerns about the
threat of alien abduction. Why do people adopt delusional beliefs
and why are they so reluctant to part with them? In Why Delusions
Matter, Lisa Bortolotti explains what delusions really are and
argues that, despite their negative reputation, they can also play
a positive role in people's lives, imposing some meaning on adverse
experiences and strengthening personal or social identities. In a
clear and accessible style, Bortolotti contributes to the growing
research on the philosophy of the cognitive sciences, offering a
novel and nuanced view of delusions.
This open access book offers an exploration of delusions-unusual
beliefs that can significantly disrupt people's lives. Experts from
a range of disciplinary backgrounds, including lived experience,
clinical psychiatry, philosophy, clinical psychology, and cognitive
neuroscience, discuss how delusions emerge, why it is so difficult
to give them up, what their effects are, how they are managed, and
what we can do to reduce the stigma associated with them. Taken as
a whole, the book proposes that there is continuity between
delusions and everyday beliefs. It is essential reading for
researchers working on delusions and mental health more generally,
and will also appeal to anybody who wants to gain a better
understanding of what happens when the way we experience and
interpret the world is different from that of the people around us.
This open access book offers an exploration of delusions-unusual
beliefs that can significantly disrupt people's lives. Experts from
a range of disciplinary backgrounds, including lived experience,
clinical psychiatry, philosophy, clinical psychology, and cognitive
neuroscience, discuss how delusions emerge, why it is so difficult
to give them up, what their effects are, how they are managed, and
what we can do to reduce the stigma associated with them. Taken as
a whole, the book proposes that there is continuity between
delusions and everyday beliefs. It is essential reading for
researchers working on delusions and mental health more generally,
and will also appeal to anybody who wants to gain a better
understanding of what happens when the way we experience and
interpret the world is different from that of the people around us.
When we talk about delusions we may refer to symptoms of mental
health problems, such as clinical delusions in schizophrenia, or
simply the beliefs that people cling to which are implausible and
resistant to counterevidence; these can include anything from
beliefs about the benefits of homeopathy to concerns about the
threat of alien abduction. Why do people adopt delusional beliefs
and why are they so reluctant to part with them? In Why Delusions
Matter, Lisa Bortolotti explains what delusions really are and
argues that, despite their negative reputation, they can also play
a positive role in people's lives, imposing some meaning on adverse
experiences and strengthening personal or social identities. In a
clear and accessible style, Bortolotti contributes to the growing
research on the philosophy of the cognitive sciences, offering a
novel and nuanced view of delusions.
Delusions are a common symptom of schizophrenia and dementia.
Though most English dictionaries define a delusion as a false
opinion or belief, there is currently a lively debate about whether
delusions are really beliefs and indeed, whether they are even
irrational.
The book is an interdisciplinary exploration of the nature of
delusions. It brings together the psychological literature on the
aetiology and the behavioural manifestations of delusions, and the
philosophical literature on belief ascription and rationality. The
thesis of the book is that delusions are continuous with ordinary
beliefs, a thesis that could have important theoretical and
practical implications for psychiatric classification and the
clinical treatment of subjects with delusions. By bringing together
recent work in philosophy of mind, cognitive psychology and
psychiatry, the book offers a comprehensive review of the
philosophical issues raised by the psychology of normal and
abnormal cognition, defends the doxastic conception of delusions,
and develops a theory about the role of judgements of rationality
and of attributions of self-knowledge in belief ascription.
Presenting a highly original analysis of the debate on the nature
of delusions, this book will interest philosophers of mind,
epistemologists, philosophers of science, cognitive scientists,
psychiatrists, and mental health professionals.
Neuroscience has long had an impact on the field of psychiatry, and
over the last two decades, with the advent of cognitive
neuroscience and functional neuroimaging, that influence has been
most pronounced. However, many question whether psychopathology can
be understood by relying on neuroscience alone, and highlight some
of the perceived limits to the way in which neuroscience informs
psychiatry.
Psychiatry as Cognitive Neuroscience is a philosophical analysis of
the role of neuroscience in the study of psychopathology. The book
examines numerous cognitive neuroscientific methods, such as
neuroimaging and the use of neuropsychological models, in the
context of a variety of psychiatric disorders, including
depression, schizophrenia, dependence syndrome, and personality
disorders.
Psychiatry as Cognitive Neuroscience includes chapters on the
nature of psychiatry as a science; the compatibility of the
accounts of mental illness derived from neuroscience,
information-processing, and folk psychology; the nature of mental
illness; the impact of methods such as fMRI, neuropsychology, and
neurochemistry, on psychiatry; the relationship between
phenomenological accounts of mental illness and those provided by
naturalistic explanations; the status of delusions and the
continuity between delusions and ordinary beliefs; the interplay
between clinical and empirical findings in psychopathology and
issues in moral psychology and ethics.
With contributions from world class experts in philosophy and
cognitive science, this book will be essential reading for those
who have an interest in the importance and the limitations of
cognitive neuroscience as an aid to understanding mental illness.
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