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Delusional Belief Systems and Meaning in Life: A Preferred Reality?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 August 2018

Glenn Roberts
Glenn Roberts*
Affiliation:
North Devon District Hospital, Raleigh Park, Barnstaple, Devon EX31 4JB; Avon Psychiatric Rotation, Bristol
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“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)

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 159 , Issue S14: Delusions and Awareness of Reality , November 1991 , pp. 19 - 28
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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