#Delusion

A groundbreaking new philosophical analysis is challenging long-held psychiatric beliefs about delusion, urging the field to reconsider whether so-called “madness” is truly a sign of dysfunction or evidence of meaningful, adaptive strategy. The latest work, highlighted in a recent article on Mad in America and anchored in research from the European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, proposes that delusions may be better understood not as isolated symptoms of mental disorder, but as purposeful responses to overwhelming distress—responses that are systematically misunderstood, and unjustly marginalized, by conventional psychiatric practice (Madin America; European Journal of Analytic Philosophy).