The Role of Belief in Psychosis

The hierarchy that we produce socially is the same as the hierarchy that we use to perceive the world. They're integrally associated. And I think that part of the reason that people dislike having their belief structures disrupted so much because we really hate having our belief structures disrupted. If your belief structure is disrupted, then it disrupts the structure that you use to perceiving the world. It disrupts the concordance between your perception and what everybody else is perceiving. That's terribly dangerous because you don't want to be wandering around in a world where no one else is looking at things the way you are.