Delusional Beliefs

by Thomas F. Oltmanns, Brendan A. Maher

This book represents a unique collection of ideas and empirical data provided by leading experts in a diversity of cognitive psychologists involved with normal mechanisms of decision-making and information processing, social psychologists concerned with normal aspects of perception, as well as clinical psychologists, anthropologists, and psychiatrists. Each offers perspectives on such questions What criteria should be used to identify, describe, and classify delusions? How can delusional individuals be identified? What distinguishes delusions from normal beliefs? Also examined in this volume are the personal, interpersonal, and situational variables predisposing certain people to developing delusions; the ways in which delusions are perpetuated; and approaches to changing a particular delusional belief.

352 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1988