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[Aspects of the dynamics of delusions]
1Psychopathologische Forschungsstelle der Universität Göttingen.
Fortschritte Der Neurologie-Psychiatrie
|January 1, 1989
Abstract:
Delusion ist the outcome of psychotic experience, but can also be seen as a structure of meaning with patterns of mental and anthropological significance of its own. In schizophrenic delusion, there is some 'effort after meaning' manifest, compensating for psychotic disintegration. In the light of generative linguistics, there seems creating of delusional ideas to be performed in separated steps, but contextually linked to integrate them into a holistic delusional view of reality. Subjective evidence of delusional thinking is analyzed on the basis of semantic logics.