Who is allowed to be confident? Psychiatry, humility, and epistemic double standards.
Australasian psychiatry : bulletin of Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists July 13, 2026 Laurence Cobbaert
ObjectiveThis article examines an epistemic double standard in psychiatry: patients' confidence, certainty and conviction are often treated as clinically interpretable, particularly in research on metacognition, insight and overconfidence in psychosis, while psychiatry's own institutional confidence is less consistently subjected to scrutiny. Drawing on literature concerning epistemic...