persecutory delusion

However, Walter was in the grip of a persecutory delusion.

Paranoia is a thought process that typically includes persecutory delusions.

He feared that he might harm his wife or children because of persecutory delusions.

"One of them is a persecutory delusion."

Persecutory delusions are, for instance, classically linked to psychosis.

Persecutory delusions are classic symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia.

"The very purpose of the government's efforts is to change Dr. Sell's thought and speech so that he does not evidence persecutory delusions."

Persecutory delusions are a delusional condition in which the affected person believes they are being persecuted.

Persecutory delusion can be treated with simple talk therapy, but they're often instead treated with medications for schizophrenia.

Apart from those with persecutory delusions, the schizophrenics achieved much higher scores than other groups, including normals, with whom they were compared.

Evidence at the inquest suggested that Dawson, a wealthy and well-travelled man, was suffering from a Persecutory delusion.

He suffered a series of huge fines and several spells in the Fleet Prison, as well as developing a persecutory delusion.

In researching over 1000 individuals of vast backgrounds, Stompe and colleagues (2006) found that grandiosity remains as the second most common delusion after persecutory delusions.

Where a bipolar disorder is involved, crying, grandiosity, insomnia, irritability, and persecutory delusions may all or severally manifest themselves as symptoms.

Symptoms may also include auditory hallucinations, confusion, insomnia, persecutory delusions, racing thoughts, restlessness, and suicidal ideation.

The Truman Show Delusion could represent a further evolution in the content of persecutory delusions in reaction to a changing pop culture.

Paranoia symptoms in paranoid schizophrenia and delusional disorder are characterized by persecutory delusions (irrational beliefs that someone else is plotting against them).

There is a relative lack of research into grandiose delusions, in comparison to persecutory delusions and other symptoms of psychosis such as auditory hallucinations.

Persecutory delusions in paranoid schizophrenia are bizarre (clearly implausible, not understandable, and not derived from ordinary life experiences), grandiose and frequently accompanied by auditory hallucinations.

Other common delusions in psychotic disorders are persecutory delusions, referential delusions, erotomanic delusions, and nihilistic delusions.

In the DSM-IV-TR, persecutory delusions are the main feature of the persecutory type of delusional disorder.

The symptoms of amphetamine psychosis include auditory and visual hallucinations, persecutory delusions, and delusions of reference concurrent with both clear consciousness and prominent extreme agitation.

Margaret and her husband Michael, both aged 34 years, were discovered to be suffering from folie à deux when they were both found to be sharing similar persecutory delusions.

In psychopathology, projection is an especially commonly used defence mechanism in people diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, and paranoia, a thought process that typically includes persecutory delusions born of fear.

They can be of various themes, such a persecutory delusions, referential delusions, grandiose delusions, erotomanic delusions, nihilistic delusions and somatic delusions.