Psychotic Consciousness

Peter K. Chadwick
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Peter K. Chadwick: Psychology Division, Birkbeck College Faculty of Continuing Education, School of Social and Natural Sciences, University of London, 26 Russell Square, Bloomsbury, London WC1B 5DQ, England, UK

International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 2001, vol. 47, issue 1, 52-62

Abstract: Congruent with recent demands for greater attention to be given to patients' actual experiences at a fine-grained level in the understanding of psychosis (e.g. Thomas 1997) the present paper first describes one day in an actual psychotic episode suffered by the author in 1979 and then subjects this narrative to analytic and normalisation interpretations. It is suggested that acute psychotic thinking of paranoid form is critically mediated by real social events and by intrapsychic deficits in attentional capacity; metacognition; thought regulation and signal discriminative ability. Cognitive processes in delusion however, are suggested to be influenced by the presence of a threatening external locus of control. This reflects the strong social and political quality to delusional suffering. The effects therefore of victimisation on cognitive processes is suggested to be an important issue in social cognitive psychology and psychiatry.

Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1177/002076400104700105

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