Eksempler på delusion

• In attempting to establish that they are delusions, then, his main efforts go into establishing that they are psychopathological.

• In this paper it is speculated that other aspects of the content of delusions are also of relevance in understanding emotional distress.

• Two individuals did have persecutory delusions but were unable to complete any of the assessments.

• A detailed assessment was made of the presence of safety behaviours, the content of delusions and emotional distress.

• Ten patients with auditory verbal hallucinations and delusions (hallucinators), eight patients with delusions but no hallucinations (non-hallucinators), and 20 non-psychiatric control subjects were tested.

• Verbal self-monitoring in hallucinators (who also had delusions) would then be compromised at two levels.

• Attributional style and delusions : an investigation based on delusional content.

• Finally, support for a neurobiological contribution to the development of delusions has recently been reported.

• No subject reported any history of mania, delusions, or hallucinations.

• Paranoid delusions and auditory hallucinations were the predominant features, with formal thought disorder, catatonic features and negative symptoms being uncommon.

• Using the example of delusions of control he explores the subjective feeling of ' agency ' and uses studies on motor control to postulate the neural correlates.

• Interestingly, the patients who were not currently deluded performed worse on the autobiographical incidents section of the task compared to those with active delusions.

• They were also significantly more likely to experience various delusions, including delusions of persecution and influence, and auditory hallucinations.

• Outside of these limits they produce imaginary objects, ahistoric delusions.

• They include repeated falls, syncope, transient loss of consciousness, systematized delusions, and hallucinations in other modalities.