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The author argues that disciplinary psychology has approached the problem of mental illness at a level of analysis that is ill suited to accessing the underlying psychological reality of the person. Rather than studying the person experiencing illness, psychologists have opted to research group-level statistical relationships between variables and then, fallaciously, to equate the relationship between these group-level associations with personal experience. The author gives a critical analysis of variable-centered research on persecutory delusions in schizophrenia and details the logical fallacies of such research for understanding persons. Next, the author examines a first-person account of schizophrenic delusions, the published account of David Zelt in the journal Schizophrenia Bulletin, as a way of illustrating the power of closely listening to the narratives of persons for understanding the meanings behind the onset, development, and course of their mental illness. |
