Who is allowed to be confident? Psychiatry, humility, and epistemic double standards
Published online on July 13, 2026
Abstract
Australasian Psychiatry, Ahead of Print.
ObjectiveThis article examines an epistemic double standard in psychiatry: patients’ confidence, certainty and conviction are often treated as clinically interpretable, particularly in research on metacognition, insight and overconfidence in psychosis, ...
ObjectiveThis article examines an epistemic double standard in psychiatry: patients’ confidence, certainty and conviction are often treated as clinically interpretable, particularly in research on metacognition, insight and overconfidence in psychosis, ...