PHL383H1 Lecture Notes - Delusional Disorder, Karl Jaspers, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

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28 Feb 2013
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Delusion and personhood as themes of graham"s last 2 chapters. The nature of a mental disorder"s disadvantage for us is that it affects/truncates our reasoning capacities. A delusion are usually marked by people saying strange things about who they are, or what the world is like, or what they think, or what has happened to them, etc. When somebody says something about the world that gives us a bit of a shock. Some of these delusions seem like unreasonable beliefs. People hold them contrary to evidence, they cannot be shaken by evidence. This is how they are not responsive to reason. Not only delusions that are false beliefs or contrary to evidence. People believe all kinds of crazy things yet we don"t decide that they are deluded. We want to say that it"s unfortunate that they believe these things and they"re wrong, but we wouldn"t necessarily say that they"re deluded. On the other hand some delusional beliefs could become true.

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