Free Will and Psychosis: Theoretical and Therapeutic Implications

In this article the determinants of psychotic disorder and correlated free will is examined. Althought there is empirical evidence for significant cognitive, emotional and neurobiological correlates of psychosis the precise impact of these abnornalities on free will is largely unclear. More research is needed into a) the role of free will into psychotic etiology and maintenance and b) the impact of different categories of psychotic disorder on free will of the patient. Director of “W. Kahn Institute of Theoretical Psychiatry and Neuroscience” and advisor Psychiatry appointed by the European Commision (Leonardo da Vinci).