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(1988) Psychopathology and philosophy, Berlin, Springer.
Karl Jaspers, mental states, and delusional beliefs
a redefinition and its implications
Manfred Spitzer
pp. 128-142
No other subject within the field of psychiatry is so central and simultaneously so little understood as delusional beliefs, and a history of psychiatry is always a history of changing ideas about delusions as well. Although clinicians daily diagnose delusions opinion is unanimous in the literature that no-one can specify what a delusion really is. As Huber (1981, p. 172) puts it, "there exists no satisfactory general definition of delusion".
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-74133-3_10
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Spitzer, M. (1988)., Karl Jaspers, mental states, and delusional beliefs: a redefinition and its implications, in M. Spitzer (ed.), Psychopathology and philosophy, Berlin, Springer, pp. 128-142.
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