Can we recreate delusions in the laboratory?
Can we recreate delusions in the laboratory?
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DOI：
10.1080/09515089.2011.569909
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发表时间：
2012-01-01
影响因子：
1.4
通讯作者：
Barnier, Amanda
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作者：
Bortolotti, Lisa;Cox, Rochelle;Barnier, Amanda
临床妄想很难在实验室中进行研究，因为它们与其他症状和智力障碍同时发生。部分出于这些原因，研究人员最近开始对神经系统完好的人进行催眠，以模拟临床妄想。在本文中，我们描述了患有镜像自我错误识别的临床妄想的患者的行为与高度催眠的受试者的行为之间的惊人相似之处，这些受试者在照镜子时接受催眠建议以看到陌生人。基于这些类比，我们认为使用催眠是研究临床妄想表面特征的可靠方法。但催眠能在多大程度上成功地重现妄想呢？它是否也有助于更好地理解妄想的形成？尽管临床妄想和催眠诱发的信念在病因学上有所不同，但根据妄想形成的双因素理论，可以在表征它们的潜在过程中识别出一些类比。
Clinical delusions are difficult to investigate in the laboratory because they co-occur with other symptoms and with intellectual impairment. Partly for these reasons, researchers have recently begun to use hypnosis with neurologically intact people in order to model clinical delusions. In this paper we describe striking analogies between the behavior of patients with a clinical delusion of mirrored self misidentification, and the behavior of highly hypnotizable subjects who receive a hypnotic suggestion to see a stranger when they look in the mirror. Based on these analogies, we argue that the use of hypnosis is a reliable method to investigate the surface features of clinical delusions. But to what extent can hypnosis successfully recreate delusions? Can it also contribute to a better understanding of delusion formation? Although clinical delusions and hypnotically induced beliefs are different in etiology, some analogies can be identified in the underlying processes that characterise them, based on the two-factor theory of delusion formation.