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delusion
delusion false belief based upon a misinterpretation of reality. It is not, like a hallucination, a false sensory perception, or like an illusion, a distorted perception. Delusions vary in intensity, and are not uncommon among substance abusers, particularly those who use amphetamines, cocaine, and... Read more |
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Delusions
Delusions Description A delusion is a belief that is clearly false and that indicates an abnormality in the affected person's content of thought. The false belief is not accounted for by the person's cultural or religious background or his or her level of intelligence. The key feature of a delusion... Read more |
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paranoia
paranoia , in psychology, a term denoting persistent, unalterable, systematized, logically reasoned delusions , or false beliefs, usually of persecution or grandeur. In the former case the paranoiac creates a complex delusional system that purports to show that people want to hurt him; in the... Read more |
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Erotomania
EROTOMANIA Erotomania, the ''delusion of being loved,'' is a morbid fascination that is clinically classified as a form of delusion, accompanied by insistent demands and jealousy. Emil Kraepelin associates it with the paranoid psychoses and Sigmund Freud interprets it psychoanalytically (1911c... Read more |
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Automatic writing
Automatic Writing Scripts produced without the control of the conscious self. It is the most common form of mediumship, the source of innumerable cases of self-delusion, and at the same time the source of some of the most interesting and intriguing cases of mediumship. Between these two extremes... Read more |
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Grandiosity
MEGALOMANIA Megalomania is commonly understood as a mental behavior characterized by an excessive desire for power and glory and by illusory feelings of omnipotence. The latter can be expressed in the psychopathological form of delusions of grandeur. Megalomania can be understood as exacerbated... Read more |
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paranoid
paranoid (pa-ră-noid) adj. 1. describing a mental state characterized by fixed and logically elaborated delusions. There are many causes, including paranoid schizophrenia, bipolar affective disorder, and severe emotional stress. 2. describing a personality distinguished by such traits as... Read more |
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Robert Calef
Robert Calef , 1648-1719, known primarily as author of More Wonders of the Invisible World (1700). A Boston cloth merchant, probably born in England, he bitterly attacked Cotton Mather for his part in the Salem, Mass., witchcraft trials. The book, published in London because Boston printers... Read more |
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pseudocyesis
pseudocyesis , imaginary pregnancy in women usually resulting from a strong desire or need for motherhood. In the absence of conception, the menstrual periods nevertheless cease, the abdomen becomes enlarged and the breasts swell and even secrete milk, mimicking genuine pregnancy. The uterus and... Read more |
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Utopianism
UtopianismI. UTOPIAS AND UTOPIANISMGeorge KatebBIBLIOGRAPHYII. THE DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTAL COMMUNITIESB. F. SkinnerBIBLIOGRAPHYI. UTOPIAS AND UTOPIANISMIt would seem at first sight that the study of utopianism is not the study of a really delimited subject: the range of the words “utopia” and... Read more |
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A Grand Delusion: Democracy and Economic Reform in Egypt.(Book Review)
...case of Egypt and other countries of the developing world, as well of those emerging from decades of Soviet-inspired state socialism, these attitudes have spawned literatures of varying degrees of sophistication. Taking its inspiration largely from a reading... |
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Eastern Europe.(new books about Russia, its history, politics and culture)
...preparing to enter the war against Germany. However, Grand Delusion: Stalin and the German Invasion of Russia by Gabriel...and ruled Hungary for over thirty years. Unfinished Socialism: Pictures from the Kadar Era by Andras Gero (18... |
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June 1941: Hitler and Stalin.(Book review)
...longer Stalin-centric study by Gabriel Gorodetsky, Grand Delusion." Stalin and the Invasion of Russia (1999). For...would let loose the most homicidal impulses of National Socialism. Equally unexpected on 22 June was the speed with which |
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SWORDLESS SAILORS.(NATION)(INSIDE THE BELTWAY)(Column)
...are still allowed. SURREAL DELUSION Wow - what adjectives, adverbs...s just not believable. A grand absurdity; a great deception; a delusion of momentous proportions...virtue traded for mediocrity; socialism to save capitalism; a government... |
 "The Gazette (Colorado Springs, CO)")
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OUR VIEW
...Venezuelans who do not share his grand vision for Venezuela. This...those who understand that socialism is a failed philosophy whose...actually to believe that socialism as a viable system, to give up his dreams and delusions. He spoke of accepting... |
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The Prague Spring and Its Aftermath: Czechoslovak Politics, 1968-1970.(Review)
...have succeeded in creating "socialism with a human face" because...1991) has called their "grand governing narrative." The...reformers "suffered from a delusion of sovereignty" (p. 5...called for the reform of socialism and the lifting of censorship... |
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Power and Arrogance.(Book review)
...step in overcoming any self-delusion is to recognize that you have...leadership. They liken the delusion to the Copernican paradigm...presumes that it has won the grand historical argument about governance...balance of power; capitalism to socialism; ... |
 "Irish Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland)")
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How much intelligence did it require for the electricians to decide to have a...
...voted to sack themselves as a grand and heroic -- if nonetheless...that industrial folly, in a grand and organised sense, was...electricians' union leaders by delusions from SIPTU. And that union...Hall, to be even taller and grander than the horror story it ... |
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Blair deserves better
...dominated by talk of a "third way" between socialism and the market, a kind of communitarian...to avoid clear-cut action, to make grand speeches and empty gestures, to prolong...the seriousness of our continuing self-delusion that we are unable to see this clearly... |
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Environmentalism Shows Its Marxist Roots
...more gratifying cause for the left than socialism ever was. Sure Marxism could justify...the vigor with which they correct your delusions of grandeur. But the Lorax can speak...or unguided nature. Think about how grand the claimed bailiwick of environmentalism... |
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