2 juillet 2020
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Brendan A. Maher, « Pensée délirante et désordre perceptif », Éditions de l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, ID : 10.4000/books.editionsehess.10272
The hypothesis that delusions are due to defective reasoning is not supported by evidence : the reasoning of deluded individuals has not been shown to differ from that of non-deluded ones. This paper proposes another hypothesis : the delusional beliefs arise from an attempt, by the patient, to explain puzzling anomalous conscious experiences. Such anomalies may be due to various causes such as an impaired input from sensory receptors, difficulty in attentional focusing, pathological states in the central nervous system leading to autonomous activation of unusual experiences and the like.