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Especially characteristic of schizophrenia are delusions in which the individual believes his thinking processes, body parts, or actions or impulses are controlled or dictated by some external force.
In the novel, the protagonist suffers delusions in which she appears to herself as a character in the very book we are reading.
In 1842, he published the essay "Homeopathy and Its Kindred Delusions" in which he again denounced the practice.
But there is also a class of so-called "non-bizarre delusions" in which a person adamantly insists on an idea or event that has been shown to be irrefutably false by overwhelming objective evidence.
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"We've already explored the so-called 'doppelgänger' delusion, in which participants suddenly see themselves enter the room," he adds.
It was a journey into madness and self-delusion, in which a terrifying folie à deux somehow kept them both sane.
Why are they indulging in books — Daniel Dennett's "Breaking the Spell," Sam Harris's "Letter to a Christian Nation," and Richard Dawkins's "God Delusion" — in which authors lampoon religion or rail against the devout under the banner of a crusading atheism?
Fox News can remind one of a sort of Grey Gardens, a hothouse of mutual delusion in which the rubbish accumulates as reality recedes, but without the quirky fashion sense or the cabaret numbers.
With the play's glib exposition, which smacks of romantic comedy, Greenberg reverses our narrative expectations and spins a psychologically astute, compelling study of narcissistic delusion, in which the payoff is not revenge but revelation about the stranglehold of symbiosis.
Gradually, Ramachandran began to specialize in rare conditions and disorders, including the Capgras delusion, in which an otherwise lucid victim of a head injury insists that close loved ones (spouses, parents, children) are impostors.
Swift seems to have given voice to what is a kind of mass cultural delusion, in which we have come to mistake Apple's design innovations for evidence of some higher ideals or purpose.
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