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On Egan's view, this distinctive mental state can be invoked to explain a number of cases that other philosophers have described as involving imagined content that gives rise to belief-typical responses (particularly delusions, see section 6.3 below).
A growing body of evidence demonstrates that persistent positive symptoms, particularly delusions, can be improved by cognitive behaviour therapy for psychosis.
A number of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have demonstrated that persistent positive symptoms, particularly delusions, and secondary disturbances such as depression, are improved by cognitive behavioral therapy for psychosis (CBT-P) in patients with schizophrenia (1 3).
Four reports found that psychotic features (particularly delusions) were frequent among mutation carriers, particularly when present early during the disease course, suggesting that this symptom category may be a marker for the mutation.
The most common application of CBT for psychosis has been as an additional treatment to drug therapy for medication-resistant patients with schizophrenia, with its beneficial effects evident as a reduction in persistent positive symptoms, particularly delusions, and secondary disturbances such as depression (Pfammatter et al., 2006; Wykes et al., 2008; NICE, 2009).
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I think we've made a lot of understanding about some delusion types, particularly persecution delusions, and we need to use that knowledge to develop better psychological treatments.
And in several psychotic disorders, the family may be involved: hallucinations, delusions particularly with ideas of theft, abandonment, jealousy or misidentification.
Schizophrenia is characterised by the presence of positive psychotic symptoms, particularly hallucinations and delusions.
[ 40- A pervasive feeling of distress] Distressing symptoms reported included hallucinations and delusions (particularly hearing voices, thought disturbances and paranoia) [ 26, 28, 30], reality disorientation [ 28], mania, and hypomania [ 38], feelings of discomfort, weirdness or oddness [ 28], and irritability or agitation [ 30].
"Bruce is so accurate about self-delusion, particularly among wealthy liberals.
Trouble is so much in the air in KICK IN THE HEAD (Doubleday, $22), Steven Rinehart's debut collection of short stories, that when, in the title story, one character reassures another, "Everything's going to be fine," it registers as a particularly pathetic self-delusion.
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