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Associated Delusions and Transformation of Delusions

Journal of Mental Science, 1896
Dr. H. Dagonet (“Annales Médico-Psychologiques,” No. 1, 1895) draws attention to those cases which exhibit simultaneously delusions of a contradictory nature and to the alternation of different kinds of delusions, e.g., delusions of persecution with those of grandeur, etc.—cases which are usually classified as folie circulaire, melancholia with ...
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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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Logics of delusion

History of Psychiatry, 2005
Delusion represents an exceptional test case for the principal categories of common sense and philosophical thought, such as ‘reason’, ‘truth’ and ‘reality’. Via an engagement with the legacy of Freud and the most discussed results of twentieth-century psychiatry, my aim will be to analyse its paradoxical forms and to shed light on the logics that ...
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Delusions of parasitosis

The American Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2009
Delusions of parasitosis (DP) is a rare psychiatric disorder in which the patient has a firm belief that she or he is infected by parasites. Although it is a psychiatric disorder, these patients often present to an emergency physician because they are convinced that they have a severe skin problem.Patients with DP often reject psychiatric referral. The
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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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Delusions of Parasitosis

Southern Medical Journal, 1988
I have presented a case of delusion of parasitosis, a relatively uncommon psychiatric condition, which was successfully treated with haloperidol.
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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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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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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 Delusive Dichotomy

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1976
IN AN article entitled "Thoughts on Teaching Medicine," Sir Robert Platt 1 said: ... After being taught... not to trust any evidence except that based on the measurements of physical science, the student has to find out for himself that all important decisions are in reality made, almost at an unconscious level, by that most perfect and complex of ...
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