THE SELF, ATTRIBUTIONAL PROCESSES AND ABNORMAL BELIEFS - TOWARDS A MODEL OF PERSECUTORY DELUSIONS
THE SELF, ATTRIBUTIONAL PROCESSES AND ABNORMAL BELIEFS - TOWARDS A MODEL OF PERSECUTORY DELUSIONS
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DOI:
10.1016/0005-7967(94)90131-7
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发表时间:
1994-03-01
影响因子:
4.1
通讯作者:
KANEY, S
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作者:
BENTALL, RP;KINDERMAN, P;KANEY, S
In this paper we review a series of recent investigations into cognitive abnormalities associated with persecutory delusions. Studies indicate that persecutory delusions am associated with abnormal attention to threat-related stimuli, an explanatory bias towards attributing negative outcomes to external causes and biases in information processing relating to the self-concept. We propose an integrative model to account for these findings in which it is hypothesized that, in deluded patients, activation of self/ideal discrepancies by threat-related information triggers defensive explanatory biases, which have the function of reducing the self/ideal discrepancies but result in persecutory ideation. We conclude by discussing the implications of this model for the cognitive-behavioural treatment of paranoid delusions.