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a delusional conviction that ordinary events, objects, or behaviors of others have an unusual or peculiar meaning specifically for oneself. When less frequent or intense, or if not organized or systematized, such beliefs are called ideas of reference.Medical dictionary. 2011.
delusion of reference — a delusion in which the patient believes that unsuspicious occurrences refer to him or her in person. Patients may, for example, believe that certain news bulletins have a direct reference to them, that music played on the radio is played for… … The new mediacal dictionary
Delusion — This article is about psychiatric condition. For the concept in Eastern spirituality, see Delusion (spirituality). Delusionism redirects here. For Wikipedia delusionism (also known as inletionism ), see meta:delusionism. See also: Delusional… … Wikipedia
delusion — A false belief or wrong judgment held with conviction despite incontrovertible evidence to the contrary. [L. de ludo, pp. lusus, to play false, deceive, fr. ludo, to play] d. of control, d. of being controlled a d. in which one experiences one s… … Medical dictionary
idea of reference — n a delusion that the remarks one overhears and people one encounters seem to be concerned with and usu. hostile to oneself called also delusion of reference * * * referential idea the assumption by a patient that the words and actions of others… … Medical dictionary
The God Delusion — Pour en finir avec Dieu Pour en finir avec Dieu Auteur Richard Dawkins Genre essai Version originale Titre original The God Delusion Éditeur original Houghton Mifflin Company Langue originale … Wikipédia en Français
The god delusion — Pour en finir avec Dieu Pour en finir avec Dieu Auteur Richard Dawkins Genre essai Version originale Titre original The God Delusion Éditeur original Houghton Mifflin Company Langue originale … Wikipédia en Français
Capgras delusion — Infobox Disease Name = PAGENAME Caption = DiseasesDB = 32606 ICD10 = ICD9 = ICDO = OMIM = MedlinePlus = eMedicineSubj = eMedicineTopic = MeshID = D002194 The Capgras delusion (or Capgras syndrome) is a rare disorder in which a person holds a… … Wikipedia
Ideas of reference and delusions of reference — This article is about a mental illness. For the album by Psyopus, see Ideas of Reference. Ideas of reference and delusions of reference involve people having a belief or perception that irrelevant, unrelated or innocuous phenomena in the world… … Wikipedia
The Dawkins Delusion? — (Dawkins, la tromperie) est un livre rédigé par le théologien Alister McGrath et la psychologue Joanna Collicutt McGrath, dans le but de critiquer le livre de Richard Dawkins The God Delusion (Dieu, la tromperie, ouvrage paru en français sous le… … Wikipédia en Français
allusion, delusion, elusion, illusion — These words, somewhat alike in sound and spelling, have different meanings and uses. An allusion is an indirect reference or mention: He made an allusion to a character in a TV melodrama. Delusion means a false belief, one usually held as a… … Dictionary of problem words and expressions
