The Concept of Psychosis: A clinical and Theoretical Analysis

TY - JOUR

T1 - The Concept of Psychosis: A clinical and Theoretical Analysis

AU - Frederiksen, Julie E Nordgaard

PY - 2010/4

Y1 - 2010/4

N2 - Psychosis is a phenomenological concept and we have no robust biological marker of its presence. Psychosis is an irreducible concept that designates being afflictedby a radical irrationality, i.e. a serious displacement out of the social consensus. Psychosis may manifest itself explicitly, through delusional propositional contents, or it is implicit non-propositionally in the alterations of other anthropological dimensions: expression, action and affectivity. We ascribe psychosis to a person, thus bringing in unique features such as personality, history and rationality. We also try to illuminate a related group of terms such as reality, reality testing, and delusions. Finally, we sketch out possible nosological consequences of our analysis.

AB - Psychosis is a phenomenological concept and we have no robust biological marker of its presence. Psychosis is an irreducible concept that designates being afflictedby a radical irrationality, i.e. a serious displacement out of the social consensus. Psychosis may manifest itself explicitly, through delusional propositional contents, or it is implicit non-propositionally in the alterations of other anthropological dimensions: expression, action and affectivity. We ascribe psychosis to a person, thus bringing in unique features such as personality, history and rationality. We also try to illuminate a related group of terms such as reality, reality testing, and delusions. Finally, we sketch out possible nosological consequences of our analysis.

M3 - Journal article

SN - 1724-4935

VL - 7

JO - Clinical Neuropsychiatry

JF - Clinical Neuropsychiatry

IS - 2

ER -