What is normal?

A couple of interesting quotes from the book Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience by Charles Zorumski and Eugene Rubin:

A delusion is a fixed false belief that is outside the cultural context of the individual.

and

…when deciding whether speech in a given individual is pathological, context seems to be critical. For example, some politicians are extremely good at controlled poverty of content and tangentiality…

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