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Record Nr.

UNINA9910956901103321

Autore

Young Garry <1966->

Titolo

Delusional misidentification / / Garry Young

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Nova Science, c2010

ISBN

1-61324-333-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (77 p.)

Collana

Psychiatry-- theory, applications, and treatments series

Disciplina

616.89

Soggetti

Delusions

Capgras syndrome

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Delusional misidentification -- Capgras and Frégoli delusions : the story so far -- Introducing pathologies of facial recognition -- The Capgras delusion -- The interactionist model -- Elevating the role of patient phenomenology.

Sommario/riassunto

The aim of this book is to challenge the two-stage model's unidirectional approach to explanation -- from neurological disruption, to anomalous experience, to full blown delusion -- which has resulted in the marginalisation of the role played by the patient's underling phenomenology in accounting for the formation and maintenance of the delusional belief. By comparing the experiences of Capgras and Fr goli patient with those suffering from other related, but non-delusional, facial recognition pathologies, and mapping these differences onto functional disruptions known to occur within the facial recognition system, a description of the delusional patient's experience emerges that is necessarily something more than simply anomalous.