Delusions in Context

by Lisa Bortolotti

Book Overview

This open access book offers an exploration of delusions--unusual beliefs that can significantly disrupt people's lives. Experts from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, including lived experience, clinical psychiatry, philosophy, clinical psychology, and cognitive neuroscience, discuss how delusions emerge, why it is so difficult to give them up, what their effects are, how they are managed, and what we can do to reduce the stigma associated with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030073203
• ISBN13: 9783030073206
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 121 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.3"