(n.) The act of deluding; deception; a misleading of the mind.
(n.) The state of being deluded or misled.
(n.) That which is falsely or delusively believed or propagated; false belief; error in belief.
Example Sentences:
(1) The grand patriarch, battling dissent and delusion, coming in for another shot, a new king on the throne, an impossible future to face down.
(2) He continued: "There's quite a lot of complacency going on and self-delusion going on.
(3) Paranoid states is a term that covers a number of different disorders in which persecutory and grandiose ideas and delusions constitute a significant part of the symptoms.
(4) The observed psychiatric symptoms were classified into two categories: simple, including incidents of confusion alone or hallucinations with preserved insight, and complex, including delusions or chronic confusion without preserved insight.
(5) The idea that these problems exist on the other side of the world, and that we Australians can ignore them by sheltering comfortably in our own sequestered corner of the globe, is a fool’s delusion.” Brandis sought to reach out to Australian Muslims, saying the threat came “principally from a small number of people among us who try to justify criminal acts by perverting the meaning of Islam”.
(6) Of course, everyone who is not drawn in by the spectacle of a 69-year-old man with hair that clearly telegraphs its owner’s level of self-delusion and casual relationship to the truth is horrified at Trump’s ascendency in the Republican party primary.
(7) Schizophrenia is a severe psychiatric disorder characterized by onset in young adulthood, the occurrence of hallucinations and delusions, and the development of enduring psychosocial disability.
(8) The following differential signs were underlined: initial symptoms, such as rudimentary cenesthopathia, stable insomnia, etc., preceding the formation of delusions; appearance of episodic exacerbations in the form of short-time acute paranoiac states; a combination of paranoiac delusion with stable phasic affective disorders; unusual possession of delusional patients expressed in bizarre delusional behaviour, etc.
(9) Delusions have traditionally been regarded as unmodifiable false beliefs.
(10) To use a slightly dodgy analogy, standing one's moral ground in the midst of free-market capitalism might be a delusion akin to the idea of Socialism In One Country: if you believe in the usual left-liberal bundle of causes, politics is probably the best arena to pursue them, rather than fixating on what you do with your money.
(11) Upon his admission to Broadmoor in 1995, Napper had a number of delusions and thought people were out to get him.
(12) Although delusion remains one of the basic problems in psychopathology, attempts to understand its pathogenesis have been dominated by unsubstantiated speculation.
(13) The clinical picture is near-monthly recurrence of episodes of stupor or excitement lasting about 1 or 2 weeks, which are accompanied by delusion and in some cases also by hallucinations or confusion.
(14) Advantages of this definition are discussed and a distinction between delusions (about external reality) and certain actual experiences (happening in the patient's mind) is proposed.
(15) Delusions are common in the early phase of the disease.
(16) They are two separate creatures with very different structures, more like a virus and a host: co-dependent but each with delusions about who is the superior form of life.
(17) This for me is a time for mild pre- Christmas nausea, caused by the annual destruction of a persistent adult delusion, instilled during schooldays, that this is a time for gradually relaxing and then having literally nothing to do for the week leading up to Christmas Day.
(18) Journalists, media types, and the delusive Edinburgh Comedy festival are complicit in supporting a broken system.
(19) In my defence, this has nothing to do with delusions of sophistication (though it would be about time).
(20) Variations in MAO activity were not significantly associated with the 65 clinical variables analyzed, although there was a tendency for patients in the low-MAO group to have more severely impaired reality testing, more paranoid and grandiose delusions, better prognostic scores, and less restlessness.
Lycanthropy
Definition:
(n.) The supposed act of turning one's self or another person into a wolf.
(n.) A kind of erratic melancholy, in which the patient imagines himself a wolf, and imitates the actions of that animal.
Example Sentences:
(1) A case is described who exhibited lycanthropy during an acute psychotic illness.
(2) The authors describe one case of Lycanthropy and revise the literature about this theme.
(3) To develop pharmacotherapies for the orphan disease lycanthropy through the pursuit of the etiologic hypothesis of a genetically determined hypersecretion of endogenous lycanthropogens.
(4) They observe that Lycanthropy has received scant attention in the modern literature, but appears to have survived into modern times.
(5) A review of the historical and modern medical literature, as well as of contemporary anthropological reports, suggests multiple etiologies for lycanthropy, including seizure disorders and use of psychotomimetic drugs.
(6) However, in a review of patients admitted to our centre since 1974, we identified twelve cases of lycanthropy, ranging in duration from one day to 13 years.
(7) As a rare but colourful presentation of psychosis, lycanthropy appears to have survived into modern times.
(8) Lycanthropy, an unusual psychiatric syndrome involving the delusion of being an animal, usually occurs as a transient symptom of severe psychosis.
(9) Modern reports on lycanthropy mainly concentrate on the content of patients' beliefs in being transformed into an animal.
(10) The phenomenon of lycanthropy is most appropriately regarded as a delusion, but the abnormal subjective experience is stressed, not just the falsely-held belief.
(11) Lycanthropy, the belief that one has been transformed into an animal (or behaviour suggestive of such a belief), has been described by physicians and clerics since antiquity, but has received scant attention in the modern literature.
(12) After a short historical review of the contemporary medical literature, the authors analyze a new and original observation of lycanthropy.