delusions of persecution

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• delusions of persecution — noun a delusion (common in paranoia) that others are out to get you and frustrate and embarrass you or inflict suffering on you; a complicated conspiracy is frequently imagined • Hypernyms: ↑delusion, ↑psychotic belief …   Useful english dictionary

• persecution — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ systematic ▪ brutal, severe ▪ political, racial, religious VERB + PERSECUTION ▪ …   Collocations dictionary

• 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

• paranoid delusions — an older term denoting delusion of grandeur and delusion of persecution; its use is discouraged …   Medical dictionary

• Stalking — For the stalking of deer, see deer stalking. For visiting near Chernobyl, see Chernobyl stalking. Stalking is a term commonly used to refer to unwanted and obsessive attention by an individual or group to another person. Stalking behaviors are… …   Wikipedia

• Mental Pathology —     Mental Pathology     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Mental Pathology     This subject will be considered under the following headings:     I. Localization of Mental Faculties     II. Causes of Mental Disturbances     III. Varieties of Insanity… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Paranoia —    (See also Erotomania; Folie à Deux; French Chronic Delusional States; Psychosis: Emergence.)    Paranoia means a fixed false belief formed via logical reasoning (making it distinct from schizophrenia); aside from his delusional system, the… …   Historical dictionary of Psychiatry

• Daniel M'Naghten — (pronounced, and sometimes spelled, McNaughton) (1813–1865) was a Scottish woodturner who assassinated English civil servant Edward Drummond while suffering from paranoid delusions. Through his trial and its aftermath, he has given his name to… …   Wikipedia

• Causes of schizophrenia — Schizophrenia is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a mental disorder characterized by impairments in the perception or expression of reality and by significant social or occupational dysfunction. A person experiencing schizophrenia is… …   Wikipedia

• Moral insanity —    (insanity without hallucinations or delusions). See Prichard, James Cowles (1835).    Distinction between momentary symptom picture and underlying disease process in psychiatry (1844). To some extent, physicians have always been aware that the …   Historical dictionary of Psychiatry

• schizophrenia — schizophrenic /skit seuh fren ik/, adj., n. /skit seuh free nee euh, freen yeuh/, n. 1. Psychiatry. Also called dementia praecox. a severe mental disorder characterized by some, but not necessarily all, of the following features: emotional… …   Universalium