The Philosophy and Psychology of Delusions: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

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Endorsement Page
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Introduction: Everyday and Non-everyday Delusions
	Notes
	References
Part I: Historical Views, Contemporary Challenges
	Chapter 1: The Conceptual History of Délire (Delusion) from Its Appearance to the Present Day
		Introduction
			Before the 18th century
			After the 18th Century
			France
			Germany
			England
		Discussion and Conclusion
		Conflicting Interests
		Funding
		References
	Chapter 2: Kant on Mental Disorder and Pragmatic Delusions: Social Intercourse as Inhibitor of Lunacy
		Introduction
		Borders of the Mind and Mental Disorder in Kant
		The Rules of Madness in Kant’s Pragmatic Anthropology
		Kant’s Approach to Social Life as Inhibitor of Mental Illness
		Concluding Remarks
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 3: The Madness of Guilt: Against Contemporary Approaches to Shame and Guilt
		Introduction
			Shame- and Guilt-Cultures
			Guilt in Contemporary Moral Philosophy
		Concluding remarks
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 4: Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Ideas about Delusional Thought in Burton’s Anatomy
		Introduction
		Part 1
			“When Reason also is corrupted”
			Melancholy in Habit
			Delusional States of Fear and Sadness
			Two-Factor Analyses: “Imagination or reason, alone, or both” 13
		Part 2: Delusional Thought in Today’s Mind Science Research
			Delusions in Relation to Beliefs and Imaginings
			Causal Antecedents
		Note on Delusions and Dreams
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
Part II: Varieties of Everyday Delusion
	Chapter 5: Meaning and Delusion
		Introduction
		Unreality – Ratcliffe
		Unreality – Wittgenstein
		Certainty and Secondary Sense
			Secondary Sense or Nonsense?
		Conclusion: Knowledge in Delusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 6: Delusional Realities, World-Traveling and Transitional Objects
		Introduction
		Multiple Realities and World-Traveling
		Delusions
		Transitional Objects
		Conclusion: Implications for therapy
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 7: Minimal Biological Adaptiveness and the Phenomenology of Delusions in Schizophrenia
		Introduction
		The Adaptiveness of Clinical Delusions
		Biological Adaptiveness and Delusions in Schizophrenia
			Phenomenal Doxasticism about Delusions
			Pre-delusional Alterations in Schizophrenia
		Psychotic Delusions as Biological Adaptive Devices: A Brief Proposal
		Concluding Remarks
		Acknowledgements
		References
	Chapter 8: An Active Inference Account of the Cotard Delusion of Inexistence
		Introduction
		Interoceptive Active Inference and the Self-Model
		Depersonalization Experience and the Insula: Dissociative Deaffectualisation
		The Cotard Delusion
		The Two Factor Neuropsychiatric Account
		A Second Factor in Cotard Delusion?
		Other Paths to Delusion. The Narrative Level of Self-Modelling
		Conclusion
		References
Part III: The Normative Framework of Delusion
	Chapter 9: From Abnormal Time-Space Experience to Delusions: Spatiotemporal Psychopathology
		Introduction
			Loss of Vital Contact with Reality – Going Back to Minkowski
			Self World Experience in Schizophrenia
			Time-Space versus Self-World – Who Is Primary and More Basic?
			Phenomenological Psychopathology of Time and Space Experience in Schizophrenia
			Scale for Time-Space Experience in Psychosis (STEP) – Introduction of Short Version for Clinical Purposes
			Positive Symptoms and Delusions: ‘Phenomenological Compensation’ of an Abnormal Time-Space Experience of the World including Its Self-World Relation
		References
	Chapter 10: Defining Delusion in the DSM-5
		Introduction
		Defense of the Doxastic Position
		Delusions as Experiences
		Are Beliefs Reducible to Neuronal States?
		Are Delusions Beliefs, or Are They Acceptances?
		Conclusion
		Note
		References
	Chapter 11: Delusions across and beyond Diagnoses
		Introduction
		Defining Features of Delusions
		Clinical Characteristics of Delusions
		Delusions beyond the Clinical Context
		Conclusions
		References
Index