Delusions

delusion

the essence of delusion being bizarreness and falsity, I think it's that the belief is based on too little evidence and it's too resistant to counter evidence

Two factory model of delusions

based on the idea that we can understad what has caused any delusion we discover

1. wha suggested the idea of the belief (cognitive impairment)

2. what prevented the proper evaluation of this idea (belief evaluation and maintenances)

Types of delusion: Mirroed-self misidentification

the belief that when you look into a mirror, the person you see there is not you, but some stranger who looks like you

Types of delusion: Capgras delusion

the belief that someones emotionally close to you (typically a family member) has been replaces by an imposter

Types of delusion: cotard delusion

the belief that you are dead

Types of delusion: fregoli delusion

the belief that you are constantly being followed by people whom you known but cannot recognise (because they are always in disguise) — the mistaken belief that some person currently present in the deluded person's environment (typically a stranger) is a familiar person in disguise.

Types of delusion: somatoparaphrenia

the belief that some part of your body belongs to someone else

Types of delusion: alien control

the belief that other people can control the movements of parts of your body