delusions of grandeur

delusion | American Dictionary

delusion
noun[ C ]
us/dɪˈlu·ʒən/
something a person believes and wants to be true, when it is actually not true:
[ C ]We have no delusions that these kids are going to play pro basketball, but they are having fun.

Examples of delusion

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In attempting to establish that they are delusions, then, his main efforts go into establishing that they are psychopathological.
In this paper it is speculated that other aspects of the content of delusions are also of relevance in understanding emotional distress.
Two individuals did have persecutory delusions but were unable to complete any of the assessments.
A detailed assessment was made of the presence of safety behaviours, the content of delusions and emotional distress.
Ten patients with auditory verbal hallucinations and delusions (hallucinators), eight patients with delusions but no hallucinations (non-hallucinators), and 20 non-psychiatric control subjects were tested.
Verbal self-monitoring in hallucinators (who also had delusions) would then be compromised at two levels.
Attributional style and delusions : an investigation based on delusional content.
Finally, support for a neurobiological contribution to the development of delusions has recently been reported.
No subject reported any history of mania, delusions, or hallucinations.
Paranoid delusions and auditory hallucinations were the predominant features, with formal thought disorder, catatonic features and negative symptoms being uncommon.
Using the example of delusions of control he explores the subjective feeling of ' agency ' and uses studies on motor control to postulate the neural correlates.
Interestingly, the patients who were not currently deluded performed worse on the autobiographical incidents section of the task compared to those with active delusions.
They were also significantly more likely to experience various delusions, including delusions of persecution and influence, and auditory hallucinations.
Outside of these limits they produce imaginary objects, ahistoric delusions.
They include repeated falls, syncope, transient loss of consciousness, systematized delusions, and hallucinations in other modalities.
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dangerous delusion
Surely that is now shown to be a dangerous delusion.
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