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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"delusions"”.
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Conscious Delusions
… deep symbolic elements that are abstracts of delusions depicting current day culture, societal habits, and rituals. The dichotomy of the foreground subject and the background image allows one to wonder where the narrative begins, where the audience belongs, and what the perception of the …
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Behavioral Economics of Persecutory Delusions
Persecutory delusions cause significant distress in the individuals who experience them, yet as a field we are still working to understand their etiology. Persecutory delusions and suspiciousness have some overlap with mistrust, and thus this dissertation focuses on the use of trust games to …
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Different Realities: Challenging Conventional Ways of Conceptualising Delusions and Hallucinations
Delusions and hallucinations are typically regarded in contemporary Western societies as signs of serious mental illness - that is, as essentially meaningless surface expressions of a biological process, that are almost invariably distressing and harmful to those experiencing them. However, these …
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A critical study of William Nevill's The Castell of Pleasure; the delusions of Amor.
<p>Few English poems have been neglected more than William Nevilll's The Castell of. Pleasure. Following Henry Pepwell' s reprint ( 1518) of Wynkyn de Worde' s original edition, the poem has been reprinted only twice. Scholarly criticism of the poem is even rarer than are its editions.</p>
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The use of obsessions and delusions as a tragic device in the major plays of Eugene O'Neill
… chapter contains definitions of obsessions and delusions, and examines the validity of these ideas as tragic devices. It discusses obsessions from the point of view of Freud and Jung.</p><p>The major plays of Eugene O’Neill have been divided into three psychological types: the first type we …
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The nature of delusion: An analysis of the contemporary philosophical debates
… philosophical approaches to the nature of delusions: specifically, their ontology. However, since none of the various theories of the nature of delusions succeeds, I argue that there must be something problematic about the form of the analyses commonly offered. My general conclusion is that …
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Investigating the efficacy of cognitive bias modification for interpretation and the Maudsley Review Training Programme on social anxiety and reasoning biases in individuals with persecutory delusions: a single case series
… in the formation and maintenance of persecutory delusions. Computerised packages, such as Cognitive Bias Modification for Interpretation (CBM-I) have been shown to improve social anxiety in psychosis (Turner et al., 2011). Similarly, the Maudsley Review Training Programme (MRTP) has improved …
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An Investigation Into The Neural Nature Of Persecutory Ideation
… that exists on a continuum with persecutory delusions. Although associated with severe negative consequences the neural mechanisms underlying persecutory ideation remain unclear. Contributing factors in this research deficit include i) low rates of studies specifically examining persecutory …
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Jodi Calls
… in Vietnam War era America who has messianic delusions.</p>
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Investigating the specificity of the jump conclusions bias in sub-clinical delusional thinking
… Myin-Germeys, Delespaul and Krabbendam, 2009). Delusions, a common symptom of schizophrenia, have been associated with a tendency to jump to conclusions. In simpler terms, it has been discussed that those that experience delusions will reach final decisions earlier than controls upon the basis …
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The association of symptoms of schizophrenia and dysfunction of specific brain regions
… alogia, affective flatness, hallucinations, and delusions. Dysfunction of specific brain regions was assessed using neuropsychological tests sensitive to damage of selective brain regions. Of these, the reliable ones used in the analyses were word fluency for left-frontal functioning, design …
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Predictive Processing Alterations in Psychosis Across Illness Stage, Hierarchical Level and Thematic Domain
… to phenomenological changes (such as the form of delusions’ relationship to evidence, confidence, and motivation) is not yet well understood. Hypothetical predictive processing alterations, suggested by simulation and pharmacological models of the development of psychotic illness, were tested in …
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The relationships between insight, psychopathological symptoms, and neurocognitive function in psychotic disorders.
… analyses found composites representing delusions, disorganization, and anxiety/depression, as well as CPT-IP shapes hit rate, served as significant predictors of total insight or the specific insight dimensions. At least for acute patients, symptoms tended to have stronger relationships …
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Verificação da hipótese auto-imune da esquizofrenia com técnicas e aportamento molecular
… illness characterized by the occurrence of delusions, hallucinations, thinking disorders and cognitive deficits. It is known that changes in the neurotransmission process constitute the fundamental pathophysiological mechanism underlying the expression of the symptoms of this disease. As the …
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Reactive psychosis in a first-episode psychosis population
… psychotic experiences such as hallucinations and delusions can be a primary reaction to overwhelming stress or distress (Ungvari & Mullen, 2000). Reactive psychosis, a term coined over a century ago to differentiate these disorders from other psychotic processes more closely resembling …
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Positive Symptoms of Schizophrenia and Suicide: A Systematic Review of Gender, Race/Ethnicity, and Premorbid IQ Variables
… Positive symptoms such as hallucinations and delusions may influence the risk of suicide among individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia, but additional research is necessary, as the limited literature on this topic is dated and includes heterogeneous results. Early recognition of and …
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Motherhood, performance, and mommy blogs: the political power of maternal online rhetoric
… with gritty and sometimes profane clicktivist delusions, rather than actively work against the systemic issues that limit the lives of mothers: lack of quality child care; breastfeeding discrimination; unpaid maternity leave; wage disparity for women, working mothers and women of color. Mommy …
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Displacing Desires in Early Modern Drama
… ""theatrical ruse,"" which cures melancholic delusions by humoring them, and the psychoanalytic transference; both therapies are predicated on gendered dynamics of bodily loss and incorporation which also inform, at a displaced level, the convergence of healer and love object in the Jacobean …
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EXPERIENTIAL NEGATIVE SYMPTOMS IN YOUNG ADULTS ENDORSING PSYCHOTIC-LIKE EXPERIENCES
… as subthreshold levels of hallucinations and delusions, fewer studies have examined negative symptoms in the early course of the schizophrenia or other psychotic disorders. This relative lack of focus on the role of negative symptoms is problematic, given findings that negative symptoms, such …
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An Investigation of Male Observation Cases That Had Been Charged With Murder to Compare Those Diagnosed With Schizophrenia to Those Diagnosed With Bipolar or Schizoaffective Disorders
… differences between the two groups. Persecutory delusions were the most common symptom for both groups (67.57%). The majority of patients had a psychiatric admission prior to the index offence (62.16%). The modal duration of illness for schizophrenia prior to the index offence was less than one …
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