Persecutory delusions, engine idling and taxi driver brains
All in the Mind
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Is There a Difference Between Antipsychotics and Cognitive Therapy?
The main treatment given is antipsychotic medication. But really that only produces a good response, or about a quarter of people. So my ambition has been to produce a much more effective psychological therapy. And so you've done a randomized control trial into a kind of cognitive therapy,. How does this differ from what's gone before, and has it worked? Yes, so this has pretty much been 20 years of work. The heart of the delusion is a sort of inaccurate threat belief. That's developed typically on the basis of some genetic vulnerability, but also life experiences such as being bad to another person. There's a number of psychological processes tht really push the paranoi on into a
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