What if delusions have a purpose or function? What if they provide the person with a sense of meaning? What if the standard medical model misses something crucial? justin_garson explores new research on psychosis.
followers also recognized that delusions can have a protective function for the mind.
A starting point of her research is the idea that “grandiosity,” that is, the belief that"I have an exceptional ability or calling," comes in degrees. All people, not just those we label as having mental disorders, have a greater or lesser sense of grandiosity. Of course, the question of how to measure “meaningfulness” raises deep philosophical questions. Isham and her colleagues analyzed meaningfulness into three dimensions: coherence, purpose, and significance.
of the scientific literature on delusions. They discovered that there’s a certain subclass of delusions that must be understood as a meaningful response to a life crisis.The first is that the point of therapy should not always be to “deconstruct” the delusion, to try to debunk the patient’s delusion, or to bombard the patient with antipsychotic medications in the way that you might bombard an infection with antibiotics.
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