Objectives: New cognitive theories of delusions have proposed that deficit or bias in inference stage (a stage of normal belief formation) is significant in delusion formation. The aim of this study was predicting the severity of delusions based on jumping-to-conclusion bias in patients with schizophrenia. Methods: The sample consisted of 60 deluded patients with schizophrenia w...

Cognitive Behavior Therapy for psychosis (CBTp) is an effective treatment resulting in small to medium effect sizes with regard to changes in positive symptoms and psychopathology. As a consequence, CBTp is recommended by national guidelines for all patients with schizophrenia. However, although CBTp was originally developed as a means to improve delusions, meta-analyses have generally integrat...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com behavioral syndromes in dementias, emphasize that, in general, including Alzheimer’s disease, the prevalence of delusional ideation varies between 15.7% and 43.5%, with the most frequent delusions of paranoid content ranging from suspicions and unstructured suspicions to ideas of being robbed or beliefs about the presence of strangers in the house. ...

A retrospective analysis of all medically serious suicide attempts made by 45 patients hospitalized consecutively at the Payne Whitney Clinic with the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual III discharge diagnosis of unipolar major depression recurrent with psychotic features was undertaken. Patients with delusions of persecution in combination with delusions of guilt were significantly more likely ...

The Spinozan theory of belief fixation holds that mentally representing truth-apt propositions leads to immediately believing them. In this paper, I explore how the fares as a defence doxasticism about delusions (the view they are beliefs). Doxasticism has been criticised on grounds typically do not abide by rational standards we expect beliefs conform to. If is Spinozan, argue, these deviation...

Abstract In chapter 3 of Delusions and Beliefs , Kengo Miyazono argues that, when delusions are pathological beliefs, they so due to their being both harmful malfunctional. this brief commentary, I put pressure on Miyazono’s account as malfunctioning beliefs. No might satisfy the malfunction criterion some fail harmfulness such conditions interpreted criteria for end, raise a general concern ab...