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A case report of Folie à deux with delusion of pregnancy
Kerala Journal of Psychiatry, 2020 Pseudocyesis is common, whereas delusion of pregnancy is a rare psychopathology. The shared delusion of pregnancy is even rarer. We present a case from a tribal community where a wife shares her husband's delusion.
Poulose Merin, Krishnan Hareesh
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The Certainties of Delusion [PDF]
, 2021 Delusions are unhinged hinge certainties. Delusions are defined as strongly anchored beliefs that do not change in the face of adverse evidence. The same goes for Wittgensteinian certainties.
Ohlhorst, Jakob
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Filosofia Unisinos, 2016 In this paper we have two main aims. First, we present an account of mood-congruent delusions in depression (hereafter, depressive delusions). We propose that depressive delusions constitute acknowledgements of self-related beliefs acquired as a result of a negatively biased learning process.
ANTROBUS M, BORTOLOTTI L
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PLoS ONE, 2021 BackgroundDelusion occupies an important position in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with psychoses. Although Karl Jaspers' concept of the primary delusion (PD) is a key hypothesis in descriptive phenomenology concerning the primordial experience
Naoki Hayashi +2 more
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Correlation between white matter hyperintensity and delusional symptoms in Alzheimer’s disease
BMC Psychiatry, 2023 Background Patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) often exhibit neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS), particularly delusions. Previous studies have shown an association between white matter hyperintensities (WMH) and specific NPS.
Wei Fan +6 more
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The Status of Delusion in the Light of Marcus's Revisionary Proposals [PDF]
, 2013 Marcus’s view of belief is applied to the debate that centers on the question, “Are delusions beliefs?” Two consequences of this are that i) the question, “Are delusions beliefs?” needs rephrasing and ii) the answer is, “No, some delusional patients do ...
Sam Wilkinson +2 more
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BJPsych Open, 2019 BackgroundThe period before the formation of a persecutory delusion may provide causal insights. Patient accounts are invaluable in informing this understanding.AimsTo inform the understanding of delusion formation, we asked patients about the occurrence
Daniel Freeman +14 more
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Hope, optimism and delusion [PDF]
, 2014 Optimism is generally accepted by psychiatrists, psychologists and other caring professionals as a feature of mental health. Interventions typically rely on cognitive-behavioural tools to encourage individuals to ‘stop negative thought cycles’ and to ...
McGuire-Snieckus, R
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Delusional beliefs and reason giving [PDF]
, 2008 Delusions are often regarded as irrational beliefs, but their irrationality is not sufficient to explain what is pathological about them. In this paper we ask whether deluded subjects have the capacity to support the content of their delusions with ...
Bortolotti L +6 more
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