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Delusion: What Did Jaspers Really Say?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 August 2018

Chris Walker*
Affiliation:
Leicester General Hospital, Gwendolen Road, Leicester LE5 4PH

Extract

“Since time immemorial, delusion has been taken as the basic characteristic of madness. To be mad was to be deluded” (Jaspers, 1963, p. 93).

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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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