Delusional beliefs and madness
- People with psychosis may believe the neighbours are poisoning them; they could believe colleagues have hired someone to kill them.
- Psychiatrists define beliefs as delusions when they consider them to be irrational and unfounded.
- French philosopher Michel Foucault defined 'madness' as the absence of reason or rational thought.
- German-Swiss psychiatrist Karl Jaspers stated that delusions are incomprehensible beliefs that don't reflect the real world.
- Today, The American Psychiatric Association stated delusions are beliefs that are clearly implausible and not understandable to same-culture peers.
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