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34The speaker behind the voice: therapeutic practice from the perspective of pragmatic theoryFrontiers in Psychology 6. 2015.
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30Metaphorical Thinking and Delusions in PsychosisIn Maxime Amblard, Michel Musiol & Manuel Rebuschi (eds.), (In)Coherence of Discourse: Formal and Conceptual Issues of Language, Springer Verlag. pp. 119-130. 2021.This paper explores how metaphorical thinking might contribute to an aetiology of florid delusions in psychosis. We argue that this approach helps to account for the path from experience to the delusional assertion, which, though relatively straightforward for monothematic delusions like the Capgras delusion, has always been difficult to account for in florid delusions in psychosis. Our account also helps to account for double book-keeping and the relative agential inertia of the belief.
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74Why Do We Talk To Ourselves?Review of Philosophy and Psychology 12 (2): 425-433. 2020.Human beings talk to themselves; sometimes out-loud, other times in inner speech. In this paper, I present a resolution to the following dilemma that arises from self-talk. If self-talk exists then either, we know what we are going to say and self-talk serves no communicative purpose, and must serve some other purpose, or we don’t know what we are going to say, and self-talk does serve a communicative purpose, namely, it is an instance of us communicating with ourselves. Adopting was the strateg…Read more
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