... this development have, however, been relatively sparse and subject to methodological criticism. Major reviews have concluded that current conceptualizations of bizarre delusions may require rethinking and refinement. Defining bizarreness entails a return to Jaspers, whose influential views on the supposed...

... historical contributions by Hare and Jaspers to the contemporary debate about the aetiology of psychotic symptoms. It will be argued that the focus of Hare and Jaspers on abnormal experience and vivid imagination have their respective analogues in recent theories of psychotic symptoms. It will be suggested...