AND MAX COLTHEART Some people seem to believe quite extraordinary things.For example, people say: 1 ¼ My closest relatives have been replaced by impostors.¼ I am dead.¼ I am being followed around by people who are known to me but who are unrecognizable because they are in disguise.¼ The person I see in the mirror is not really me.¼ A person I knew who died is nevertheless in the hospital ward today.¼ This arm [the speaker's left arm] is not mine it is yours; you have three arms.¼ Someone else is able to control my actions.¼ Someone else's thoughts are being inserted into my mind.These apparent claims are so bizarrely false that we might have some doubt whether the utterances can really be expressions of beliefs.But alternative interpretations of the utterances are not easy to sustain (see below, section 1.1).These people seem to understand what they are saying, they seem to be sincere, We are grateful to all the participants in the workshop at Macquarie University at which the papers in this volume were first presented.Early versions of material in this Introduction were presented in talks at the Australian National University, at the Novartis Foundation in London and at the Institute of Psychiatry also in London; we learned much from discussions on those occasions.
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