(a.) Of or pertaining to delusions; as, delusional monomania.
Example Sentences:
(1) Withdrawal from long-term treatment with benzodiazepines was followed in three patients by a severe delusional depression.
(2) The relationship of response to neuroleptic dose and desipramine plasma concentration was examined in 31 patients with unipolar delusional depression.
(3) Reports of violence associated with delusional misidentification are reviewed and four patients described who were either perpetrators or victims of assaults as a consequence of the syndromes of Frégoli, Intermetamorphosis, Subjective Doubles and Capgras.
(4) The results suggest that Cues, Pause, Point procedures may offer some potential for replacing delusional responding with appropriate responding to social stimuli.
(5) Techniques for assessing the existence of significant hallucinatory and delusional experiences in children are suggested.
(6) A mother and her son shared delusional beliefs that doubles of themselves existed and that they were being harassed by the police and social and educational services.
(7) Schizophrenics had decreased sleep continuity comparable to delusional depressives.
(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) The irrational motivations of refusal (particularly, denial and delusional ideation) have been evoked much more often then rational motivations (therapeutic inefficiency, secondary effects).
(10) The top Trump aide called Fields “totally delusional”, and the candidate suggested: “Perhaps she made the story up.
(11) The results indicate fair concordance between the two clinical approaches and the DIS with regard to the presence of any delusional or hallucination symptoms.
(12) Her husband shared in her beliefs but lost all delusional conviction after she was compulsorily admitted to a special hospital.
(13) Possible reasons for the consistence or non-consistence of delusional content are discussed.
(14) The longer the session went on, the greater the fears for Big Phil’s mental health became, for by now he was showing signs of delusional psychosis.
(15) 62 min: "People accusing Chelsea of negative tactics are completely delusional," writes Philip Podolsky.
(16) In variants nearer to shiftlike schizophrenia, the affective disorders in the framework of the attack gradually lose their intensity, while the hallucinatory delusional symptomatology acquires a tendency towards a systematization.
(17) So Deniker and Ginestet categorized neuroleptics on the basis of their behavioural efficacy and distinguished sedative neuroleptics from anti-delusional neuroleptics and anti-autistic neuroleptics.
(18) 4 types of delusional and hallucinatory experience with certain ensuing therapeutic reactions are distinguished: Type 1: pseudonormality and denial of delusions, type 2: overlapping of reality and delusion and frantic attempts to separate the two realms, type 3: hallucinatory absorption and trance-like states, type 4: dramatic delusional play and "happy" hallucinations in regressive psychoses.
(19) Delusional depressives had a higher total score than non-delusional depressives on Hamilton's Rating Scale for Depression, as well as a higher score for depressed mood and psychomotor retardation.
(20) Special attention is paid to psychopathology as well as to psychodynamic and semiotic aspects of the delusional illness.
Delusive
Definition:
(a.) Apt or fitted to delude; tending to mislead the mind; deceptive; beguiling; delusory; as, delusive arts; a delusive dream.
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.