title: Phenomenological questions about obsession and delusion.
abstract: The problem of the relationship between obsession and delusion is dealt with from descriptive, anthropoanalytical and purely phenomenological points of view. The main differential aspects are focused. The phenomenological concept of the progressive fading of the 'feeling of Ego activity' is proposed as the functional bias at the basis of the continuum linking obsessive symbolic awareness to delusional perception.
authors.affiliation: Mental Health Service, Florence, Italy.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ballerini
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Stanghellini
mesh_terms: D003702:Delusions / Q000523:psychology*; D004532:Ego; D006801:Humans; D009769:Object Attachment; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D012938:Social Perception