Psychiatric Classification and Diagnosis: Delusions and Confabulations
Journal title PARADIGMI
Author/s Lisa Bortolotti
Publishing Year 2011 Issue 2011/1
Language English Pages 13 P. 99-111 File size 274 KB
DOI 10.3280/PARA2011-001006
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Delusions and confabulations occurring in psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, amnesic syndromes, and dementia, are defined on the basis of their surface features. In particular, they are classified and diagnosed as beliefs that violate norms of rationality. In this paper the author argues that current epistemic accounts fail to provide sufficient conditions for delusions and confabulations. Moreover, the identified epistemic faults cannot serve as criteria of demarcation between pathological and non-pathological beliefs.
Keywords: Beliefs, Confabulation, Delusion, Demarcation criterion, Diagnostic criteria, Psychiatric classification, Rationality
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Lisa Bortolotti, Psychiatric Classification and Diagnosis: Delusions and Confabulations in "PARADIGMI" 1/2011, pp 99-111, DOI: 10.3280/PARA2011-001006