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Thought insertion is a common symptom of psychosis and occurs in many mental disorders and other medical conditions. However, thought insertion is most commonly associated with schizophrenia.
‘Thought insertion’ in schizophrenia involves somehow experiencing one’s own thoughts as someone else’s. Some philosophers try to make sense of this by distinguishing between ownership and agency: one still experiences oneself as the owner of an inserted thought but attributes it to another agency.
- Matthew Ratcliffe, Sam Wilkinson
- 2015
May 19, 2022 · Thought insertion occurs when one takes a thought one is having to (somehow) not be one's own. For example, I have a thought that it would be nice to have an ice cream, but take this thought to...
This review examines the phenomenology of thought insertion and similar, possibly related phenomena and then proceeds to examine the utilisation of the concept of thought insertion by authors in a variety of literatures.
- Simon Mullins, Sean A. Spence
- 2003
Jan 24, 2017 · This article examines the phenomenon of thought insertion, one of the most extreme disruptions to the standard mechanisms for self-knowledge, in the context of Kant’s philosophy of mind.
- Sacha Golob
- sacha.golob@kcl.ac.uk
- 2017
Jul 26, 2023 · Thought insertion is the delusion that the thoughts of another are inserted into one’s own mind. The phenomenon is predominately found in people with schizophrenia, but is also present in those with mood disorders and acute psychosis (Peralta and Cuesta 1999 ). The literature is marked by a number of conflicting accounts of thought insertion.
May 29, 2015 · In thought insertion the thought is observed or witnessed by the person, the person has access to the content through introspection and has some sort of first-person experience of it. It is not, however, the same kind of experience that they ‘normally’ have.
