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Delusions


Primary or secondary to other psychopathology

Primary delusions

  • Autochthonous

    • without any preceding mental events

  • Delusional perceptions

    • attaching of new significance to a familiar percept

  • Delusional atmosphere/mood

    • change of mood precedes delusion

  • Delusional memory

    • new significance attached to past events

Content

  • somatic

  • persecutory

  • delusions of reference

  • grandiose

  • Schneiderian

  • delusions of misidentification

    • Capgras

      • person replaced by exact double

    • Fregoli

      • patient's persecutors masquerading as attendants

  • delusions of control

  • grandiose delusions

  • religious delusions

  • delusions of love

    • morbid jealousy

    • erotomania / De Clarembaults syndrome

 

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