The phrase "delusion for" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe someone's mistaken belief or perception. Here is an example: "John's delusion for fame and fortune led him to make some poor decisions that ultimately ruined his career."
It's a delusion for politicians to think that biodiesel will solve climate change".
Clearly, many of them were far too early in predicting a debt-driven crisis; Peter Warburton's jeremiad "Debt and Delusion", for example, was published back in 1999.But they have a point now.
(Thus, ignoring the difference between an illusion and a delusion, for example, lends credence to the view that the objects of immediate perception are not physical objects but sense data).
It's a myth that borders on delusion, for some of the key technologies that led to the internet were underwritten by government subsidies and arose in the context of larger-than-life geopolitical battles.
The belief in the possibility of true purity might be a delusion for most voters, but it's a privilege of youth, the province of people for whom the thrill of theory hasn't yet given way to the comparative disappointment of practice.
The sainted Richard Dawkins habitually manages to frame the questions involved with his customary profundity – claiming in The God Delusion, for example, that: "When my life is taken out, I want to be under general anaesthetic, as if it were my diseased appendix".
ICC were: 0.87 for delusion, 0.74 for conceptual disorganization, 0.95 for hallucination, 0.82 for hyperactivity, 0.95 for grandiosity, 0.87 for suspiciousness/persecution and 0.73 for hostility.
They were A1 for major depressive episode, A16 for manic episode, B1 for delusions, B6 for hallucinations, E2 for alcohol abuse, and F68 for anxiety disorders.
Exploiting her painful singing of coloratura arias for laughs and her pathetic self-delusion for sympathy, the play walked a weird tightrope.
Between 2005 and 2011, the scientists worked with 410 patients, aged 18-65, who presented at south London hospitals with a first episode of psychosis and had shown symptoms such as hearing voices or suffering delusions for at least a month.
However, motivational factors can still play an important role in the explanation of some delusions, for instance by partially determining the specific content of the reported delusional state.
