Overvalued Ideas: When Conviction Becomes a Trap
The Overvalued Idea of Perfection What is an Overvalued Idea? An Overvalued Idea, a concept originating in psychopathology, refers to an understandable and often logical belief that is pursued by an individual with an unusual, even pathological, degree of conviction and preoccupation. Unlike a delusion, which is a fixed false belief not amenable to reason […]