Highlights•We examine reported associations and distinctions between religion and
delusion.•We present vignettes to illustrate the conceptual and clinical issues involved.•We …

What sort of mental state is a delusion? What causes delusions? Why are delusions
pathological? This book examines these questions, which are normally considered …

Empiricist models explain delusional beliefs by identifying the abnormal experiences which
ground them. Recently, this strategy has been adopted to explain the false body size beliefs …

People with delusional disorders sometimes act on their delusions. But delusions can seem
behaviorally inert: someone may report a delusion but take few of the actions made …

The year is 2345. Mental health services have developed along the lines settled by 21st
century biological psychiatry. The once long-awaited arrival of precise medicine methods of …

The relation between delusions and moral responsibility is virtually uncontested among
broadly Strawsonian responsibility theorists: these responsibility theorists simply assume …

In this thesis I propose a new way of understanding depressive illness as not exclusively
harmful, but as related to particular, empirically evidenced, epistemic and pragmatic benefits …

Background Many kinds of beliefs can be held both strongly and emotionally, which means
that they can prove difficult to change. Such beliefs can be either pathological (eg delusions) …

Empiricist models explain delusional beliefs by identifying the abnormal experiences which
ground them. Recently, this strategy has been adopted to explain the false body size beliefs …