Sentence examples for central delusion from inspiring English sources

The authors of the first report, which concluded that Breivik had psychotic paranoid schizophrenia, said he was suffering from the central delusion that "he is going to save us all from doom in the fight between good and evil.

But there's a central delusion in these shows that is never far from my mind when I'm watching these shows: off the grid people are not self-reliant, but instead are mooching off of the civil society, government, and safety net the rest of us contribute to.

It's a heady ferment of mysticism versus charlatanism and its terrible cost to family and sanity, but though Chanter delivers a strong, literary page-turner, neither its central character nor her delusion entirely convince.

The distinction between sensory perception and judgmental acumen enables Austin to distinguish between central cases of illusion and central cases of delusion, and also to sketch explanations of what is going on in those cases that do not make appeal to sense-data.

One exception is Arpaly, 2005)) Schizophrenia One of the central symptoms of schizophrenia is delusion.

It is central to Leader's argument that delusion and sanity cannot be neatly separated.

Whether it was an accident or a demonstration of remorse - part of the campaign to place Hogan's delusions and suffering as central to his case - his anguish was palpable.

"The central problem of banking is self-delusion.

The themes of self-delusion and self-awareness are central, and Mabanckou invites us to ponder whether the narrator is peddling an alternative history, just as other customers of the bar seem to be.

After the Holocaust shattered the delusion of assimilation to which German and Central European Jews had clung until it was too late, a surviving Jew could hardly be expected to feel much of the old nationalistic pride.

These arguments are central to the debate about the doxastic nature of delusions (Bortolotti 2009).