But let's not continue to be fooled by our leaders' self-aggrandizing delusion that in terms of policy making, the nation-state is still the appropriate vehicle for our times.
The view described in (iv) is very attractive because it captures the distinction between delusions and irrational beliefs in terms of their effects on other aspects of a person's psychological and social life.
This study took schizophrenia, mania, and psychotic depression as primary psychotic illnesses and defined psychosis in terms of delusions, hallucinations, and disorganized behavior (29).
Thus at the macrocosmic level, the ordinary world was viewed not as the Buddhists saw it in terms of delusion, error, and suffering, but rather as the bountiful and morally good creation of heaven and earth, leading to the on-going production and reproduction of the ten-thousand things of the world in which we live.
"Tinderbox," though, frames it in terms of Western delusions, and even hubris: "the West tried to remake Africa, and ended up igniting a disastrous new epidemic".
This evidence provides further support for the theory that delusions of control can be explained in terms of improperly attenuated sensorimotor feedback, as suggested by the forward output model.
Richard Dawkins Richard Dawkins (born 1941) is a biologist who, in his book The God Delusion (2006), tries to explain religion in terms of Darwin's theory of evolution.
Of course, some of the other apparently irrational beliefs (delusions) of schizophrenia are less easy to explain in terms of agency misattribution.
The more purely philosophical approach to explaining delusions concentrates on the role the delusion plays in the subject's mental life, as understood in terms of some theories in philosophy of mind.
She had responded well to a combination of clozapine, aripiprazole and escitalopram in terms of a reduction in persecutory delusions and auditory hallucinations, however her visual hallucinations remained vivid.
