Importance Schizophrenia is a common, severe mental illness that most clinicians will
encounter regularly during their practice. This report provides an overview of the clinical …

The present article provides a narrative review of empirical studies on metacognitive training
in psychosis (MCT). MCT represents an amalgam of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) …

Presents a valuable new approach to research and treatment of psychological disorders•
Offers new and creative ideas to clinicians to develop their clinical skills• Provides an …

The present study examined the impact of a brief version of an acceptance-based treatment
(acceptance and commitment therapy; ACT) that teaches patients to accept unavoidable …

A multifactorial model of the formation and maintenance of persecutory delusions is
presented. Persecutory delusions are conceptualized as threat beliefs. The beliefs are …

Persecutory (paranoid) delusions are a frequently observed clinical phenomenon. In recent
years, an increasing volume of research has attempted to explain these types of beliefs in …

Previous studies have reported associations between childhood adversities, eg, loss of a
parent, being raised in institutional care, sexual and other kinds of abuse by adults and …

From an evolutionary standpoint, a default presumption is that true beliefs are adaptive and
misbeliefs maladaptive. But if humans are biologically engineered to appraise the world …

Purpose. To review critically the evidence for three contemporary theories of delusions.
Methods. The theoretical approaches to delusions proposed by Frith and colleagues ('theory …

Delusions are the false and often incorrigible beliefs that can cause severe suffering in
mental illness. We cannot yet explain them in terms of underlying neurobiological …