This article is aimed at discussing Serieux and Capgras’s classical study on rationaling madness in the context of the contemporary delimitation of the concept of “paranoia.” In particular, the author discusses Kraepelin’s use of this famous article in drawing up his own definition of paranoia, included in the eighth edition of his Treatise on Psychiatry, written in 1915.
Sérieux; Capgras; “Rationaling madness”; paranoia