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Type Book Chapter
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title The cognitive neuropsychological understanding of persecutory delusions
Organization Unit
Authors
  • R Langdon
  • R McKay
  • M Coltheart
Editors
  • D Freeman
  • R Bentall
  • P Garety
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Booktitle Persecutory delusions: assessment, theory, and treatment
ISBN 978-0-19-920631-5
Place of Publication New York
Publisher Oxford University Press
Page Range 221 - 236
Date 2008
Abstract Text In considering the contribution of cognitive neuropsychology to the understanding of persecutory delusions, we shall proceed in this chapter as follows: First, we shall consider the contribution of the more conventional clinical neuropsychological approach to the study of delusions. After all, cognitive neuropsychology developed as a hybrid of clinical neuropsychology (the psychological study of brain-injured people) and cognitive psychology (the study of the mental information-processing procedures that people use to perform such activities as speaking and understanding speech, and recognizing objects). Second, we shall outline the cognitive neuropsychological approach with brief reference to its history. Third, we shall describe how this approach has been applied to the study of delusions with reference to our two-deficit cognitive neuropsychological model of monothematic delusions. Finally we shall evaluate the applicability of this model to the explanation of other delusions that are not so obviously neuropsychological; here we shall focus on persecutory delusions.
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