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Karl Jaspers, mental states, and delusional beliefs

a redefinition and its implications

Manfred Spitzer

pp. 128-142

Abstract

No other subject within the field of psychiatry is so central and simultaneously so little understood as delusional beliefs, and a history of psychiatry is always a history of changing ideas about delusions as well. Although clinicians daily diagnose delusions opinion is unanimous in the literature that no-one can specify what a delusion really is. As Huber (1981, p. 172) puts it, "there exists no satisfactory general definition of delusion".

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Spitzer Manfred (1988) Psychopathology and philosophy. Berlin, Springer.

Pages: 128-142

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-74133-3_10

Full citation:

Spitzer Manfred (1988) „Karl Jaspers, mental states, and delusional beliefs: a redefinition and its implications“, In: M. Spitzer (ed.), Psychopathology and philosophy, Berlin, Springer, 128–142.