This week's parliamentary votes on Brexit should mark the death of a delusion.
It doesn't take too much to realize that this is really a little bit of a delusion, because either I'm free or am I not free.
The Corker episode is perhaps a case study of a delusion still affecting too many senior Republicans: that they can use him without being used by him.
Russia even stripped thousands of émigrés of their citizenship perhaps because of a delusion that they, or anyone else, could influence the outcome of the vote.
The office of Cyrus R. Vance Jr., the Manhattan district attorney, considered Mr. Hernandez's mental health history and the potential for a false confession but concluded that the confession was strong and not the product of a delusion.
As Mr. Pinto noted, the Amazon has the name it does because of a delusion: the first Europeans to visit thought they saw one-breasted woman warriors, like those in Greek mythology, on horseback along the bank of the river.
Now they have dozens, and Mr. Greek is one of a small number of such "native" theorists who argue that the content of a delusion should not be ignored but engaged, carefully, once a person has his or her hallucinations under control.
On the ground, mental health professionals are often required to decide if someone's thinking indicates a disturbance in their understanding of the world, and this is where the new DSM-5 definition of a delusion may usher in a quiet revolution in psychiatry.
This results in the formation of a delusion (Corlett et al. 2007).
I get the feeling that we have just participated in a dare — or the indulgence of a delusion.
According to one familiar version of the two-factor theory (Davies and Coltheart 2000), an unusual experience is the first factor in the aetiology of a delusion, but there must also be a second factor.
