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Delusion: What Did Jaspers Really Say?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 August 2018

Chris Walker
Chris Walker*
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Leicester General Hospital, Gwendolen Road, Leicester LE5 4PH
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“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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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 159 , Issue S14: Delusions and Awareness of Reality , November 1991 , pp. 94 - 103
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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