From the perspective of the psychosis continuum, individuals who report high levels of delusion-like behavoiur may be more likely to develop clinical psychosis [ 42, 45].
Nearly every group in the country has been required to hold meetings and issue statements against the group; newspapers have featured a university psychiatrist's conclusion that believers in Falun Gong suffer from "delusion-like subcultural belief" and need psychiatric help.
Bentall 2003, for instance, gathered a vast amount of empirical data about the temporal variations in delusions reported by people affected by psychopathologies, and the presence of delusion-like beliefs in the normal population.
The other view insists that there is continuity between delusions and beliefs, and attempts to gather data both suggesting that people with delusions can reason in much the same way as people without, and that delusion-like ideas are widespread in the normal population.
Specifically, participants in the high SPD features group reported more delusion-like experiences than the other two groups.
Further, those in the moderate SPD features group reported more delusion-like experiences than the low SPD features group.
Delusions may arise subsequent to brain lesion; this is the common etiology of delusions like Capgras' delusion, which is characterized by the belief that familiar people (typically spouses, children and other relatives) and occasionally even animals have been replaced with impostors, and the much rarer Cotard's delusion (the delusion that the person herself is dead).
And stories like this one, about an old, dusty violin bow -- rare tales that fuel delusions, like my addiction to buying old junk at thrift stores.
Delusions, like all psychotic symptoms, can occur as part of many different psychiatric disorders.
There are half a dozen delusions like that that the book industry thrives on".
