What is a delusion? Epistemological dimensions.Examines the adequacy of the criteria for delusions as established in the `Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders'. Detection of delusional beliefs; Defining feature of delusions; Irrationality criterion; Clinical implications; Causes of belief ...
Still, the worddelusion—even more thanhallucination—is commonly used in a general way to mean “any belief considered false, whether or not it means the clinical criteria.” The termdelusions of grandeuris most often used outside of a psychiatric context to criticize people who think too high...
Yet these are the “facts” and “the science” claimed to justify control gained through fear of the “unknown”, that is in fact known, but another version of reality is made up to scare people and claim to justify whatever control is decided upon by the rulers. We do know a lot, ...
Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" seems to intertwine both theme and setting. The poem's opening line establishes the setting as a "yellow wood" and indicates the presence of a traveler who is standing at a place where "Two roads" diverge into these woods. The remainder of the poem ...
Objective: As the literature on conventional criteria for discriminating early-onset (EO) from late-onset (LO) Alzheimer's disease (AD) is sparse and controversial, the aim of this study was to establish a precise age at onset (AAO) criterion, by using a specific statistical procedure, and ...
“pure obsessional” thought disorder. The article then covered the debate about whether it is a distinct category of mental illness from OCD. As you might know, my view is that diagnostic criteria for mental illness are pretty messed up, and we don’t have much idea about what is going ...
are not as we want them to be. In subjectivity, the judgments that are given and the conclusions that are made are based on the nature of the personality of a person, his desires and values; they are evaluated based on those criteria; they have no relationship with the properties of ...
This trauma model is reflected in theWorld Health OrganisationandAmerican Psychiatric Associationpast and present diagnostic criteria. However, thefantasy modelis based on the idea that dissociative disorders are not “real”. Instead, they are the delusion of people who are troubled (and often traumat...
“Oh, and he was also born Cassius Clay,” or you might say, “Oh, he also won the world heavyweight title in this particular year.” There’s only one person who meets all those criteria. So every question has a hook and a pin and the writer is gonna be thinking about, what’s...
There are no set of criteria for what makes a film one of the “Greatest.” I assume everyone who is polled is asking themselves these questions, and everyone is arriving at their own answer. And I arrived, troublingly, at my own.So, take this all for what it is worth, which is ...