Who Are People with Psychosis Delusional about? A Study of Social Agents in the Phenomenology of Delusions.
Psychopathology 2026 Elisavet Pappa, Nichola Raihani, Vaughan Bell
Delusions frequently involve strong beliefs about, or interactions with, illusory social agents. Although such agents have been systematically described in hallucinations, few studies have investigated their nature and identity in delusions. We identified 205 electronic mental health records describing the content of delusions from the Clinical Record Interactive Search platform at South London...