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CANCEROPHOBIA AND DELUSION

Journal of the American Medical Association, 1959
There are two types of patients who consult physicians in connection with the fear of having cancer and in whom malignancy cannot be detected. Those who fall into the cancerophobia classification can accept reassurance and regain normal status. Those who present the delusion of cancer are unable to accept reassurance and become increasingly anxious. In
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A Research Delusion

Science, 1928
With the administrative heads of many of our educational institutions demanding a doctorate of every member of the permanent staff, as it is supposed to be a prerogative for research, and the issuing of a list of titles published each year by their staff, the urge for so-called research, namely, a list of titles, goes madly on.
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The Origins of Delusion

British Journal of Psychiatry, 1992
Although delusion remains one of the basic problems in psychopathology, attempts to understand its pathogenesis have been dominated by unsubstantiated speculation. Previous psychodynamic formulations have recently given way to increasing interest in measurement, and testing of models derived from cognitive psychology.
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Delusion

2018
In a clinical context, delusions are symptoms of a number of psychiatric disorders including schizophrenia and dementia, manifesting as beliefs that are implausible and resistant to counter-evidence. In the philosophical literature, the nature of delusions (what they are) and their formation (what causes them) have been examined with increasing ...
GUNN R, BORTOLOTTI L
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On the measurement of delusions

British Journal of Medical Psychology, 1990
Garety (1985) analysed problems with existing definitions of delusions, focusing on the fixity and intensity of delusional beliefs. A quantitative method was proposed to evaluate with greater sensitivity the intensity of delusional conviction and its fixity over time. In this comment, three related points are raised about Garety's analysis and measure.
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Delusions of parasitosis

Psychosomatics, 1984
Abstract Patients with delusions of parasitosis are classified here into the three distinct categories of primary psychotic, secondary functional, and secondary organic. The primary psychotic group is the only one with isolated delusions of somatic infestation present in an otherwise intact personality—these persons have the true, clinical delusions ...
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Delusion and reparation

The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2018
This paper looks at the reparative quality of delusional systems. The Author explores and expands Freud's notion of delusion as an 'attempt at reparation'. Even if a delusion is mostly the consequence of hatred of reality and an omnipotent idealized construction to protect the ego from persecutory anxiety stemming from a destructive superego, its ...
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Delusion

2013
This chapter offers an overview of the phenomenological approach to delusions, emphasizing what Karl Jaspers called the "true delusions" of schizophrenia. Phenomenological psychopathology focuses on theexperienceof delusions and the delusional world. Several features of this approach are surveyed, including emphasis on formal qualities of subjective ...
Louis A. Sass, Elizabeth Pienkos
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Delusions of halitosis

Psychosomatics, 1985
Abstract Review of the literature on delusions of halitosis confirms their fundamentally psychogenic basis. However, assessment of six recent cases reveals some new findings, especially that all six patients complained of sensations of bad taste. In such patients, with histories of medical problems such as rhinorrhea and rhinitis, distortions in ...
Richard L. Goldberg   +2 more
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The intelligibility of delusion

Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 2010
The question of the intelligibility of delusion has recently been addressed from within empirical psychology, analytical philosophy, and existential phenomenology. The different presuppositions, aims and paradigms for understanding deployed by these several approaches have not always been clearly distinguished.Psychological theories of delusion ...
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