Delusional Belief Systems and Meaning in Life: A Preferred Reality?
- 1 November 1991
- journal article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 159 (S14) , 19-28
- https://doi.org/10.1192/s0007125000296438
Abstract
“Extreme psychotic states offer a human parable … patients see into the depths which do not belong so much to their illness as themselves as individuals with their own historical truth … in psychotic reality we find an abundance of content representing fundamental problems in philosophy …. The philosopher in us cannot but be fascinated by this extraordinary reality and to feel its challenge.” (Jaspers, 1963)Keywords
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