Overvalued ideas: psychopathologic issues

Actas Esp Psiquiatr. 2011 Jan-Feb;39(1):70-4. Epub 2011 Jan 1.

Abstract

The position attributed in recent years to overvalued ideas between delusion and obsession and that are derived from the reduction of the construct per se to one of its characteristics, that is, insight, has undergone a critical review. Using a case with dysmorphophobic ideas, the difficulties to define it and differentiate it from delusion are proposed and different psychopathological approaches are outlined that make it possible to reconstruct the case differently.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Delirium / psychology*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Obsessive Behavior / psychology*