Overview
Brings together chapter authors from clinical psychology, neuroscience and philosophy to consider delusions as beliefs
Challenges the usual notion of delusions as forms of mental illness
Part of the PERFECT project supported by the European Research Council
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About this book
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.
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Table of contents (4 chapters)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Lisa Bortolotti is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Birmingham, UK. She works in the philosophy of the cognitive sciences and has a special interest in belief, irrationality, and mental health.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Delusions in Context
Editors: Lisa Bortolotti
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97202-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
License: CC BY
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-97201-5Published: 24 October 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07320-6Published: 21 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-97202-2Published: 05 October 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 121
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Clinical Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology, Psychopathology, Critical Psychology, Religion and Psychology