Recovery, Values and e‐learning

Allott, Piers; Fulford, Bill; Fleming, Bernard; Williamson, Toby; Woodbridge, Kim

doi:10.1108/13619322200500038

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“…In traditional disorder-centered approaches, the aim is, straightforwardly, to get rid of the patient's symptoms (preferably by dealing with their underlying causes). The aim of the person-centered approaches of contemporary mental health practice is instead recovery of a good quality of life, where "good" means good as defined primarily by the values of the person concerned (Allott et al 2005). Symptom control may well have a part to play in this, but only to the extent that it serves to support rather than prejudice recovery of the individual's quality of life.…”

Section: Non-pathological Delusionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Delusions: A Project in Understanding

Filford¹,

Thornton²

2016

Handbook of the Philosophy of Medicine

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This chapter gives an illustrated overview of recent philosophical work on the concept of delusion. Drawing on a number of case vignettes, examples are given of the wide range of theories that has been advanced to explain this most challenging of experiences. Some have agreed with the philosophical founder of modern descriptive psychopathology, Karl Jaspers, that delusions are (empathically at least) "ununderstandable." The large majority, though, has sought to understand delusion in terms of aberrations of one kind or another either of beliefs (or related mental contents such as imaginings) or of the grounds or preconditions for beliefs. As a project in understanding, these theories offer helpful insights. A

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Section: Non-pathological Delusionsmentioning

confidence: 99%