Passée la porte, il n’y a rien que du vent : Southern et Western, du désenchantement au crépuscule by Christian Viviani

“…Dooming to failure the hegemonic self-delusion of the white Southern master and the revengeful white trash characters, disenchanted “twilight Westerns” announce the ideological challenge that marked the Westerns of the 1960s and 1970s. …”
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Rosja Katarzyny II w Zapiskach Louisa Philippe’a de Ségura by Jolanta Kazimierczyk-Kuncer

“…Against the background of his intricately crafted missionary strategy, whose aim was to sign a trade treaty with Russia, Ségur draws a distinctive portrait of the tsarina and her favourite, Potiomkin, skilfully smuggling in a criticism of their reformation activities. Exposing the delusion of Russia’s civilization progress, “the country of dumb obedience and anarchy” whose nation, superficially absorbing European customs, is still plunged into slavery, he simultaneously revisits “the Russian mirage”.…”
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Hérétique ou dément ? Autour du procès de Thomas d’Apulie à Paris en 1388 by Maud Ternon

“…In the beginning of the 13th century, another use of the argument of madness develops, based on the distinction between mere heretical delusion and real heresy. The naturalistic medical causality used to characterize mental illness receives in that distinction a growing place. …”
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Olfactory Delusional Syndrome and Intracranial Meningioma by Michele Rotondo, Massimo Natale, Raffaele D'Avanzo, Assunta Scuotto

“…We report the case of a 37-year-old female in which the removal of a suprasellar neoplasm was accompanied by the disappearance of a longstanding olfactory delusion syndrome. In primary care the patient condition was exclusively thought to be psychic in origin, neglecting the possible, not infrequent, organic contribution. …”
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Recognition Memory in Psychotic Patients by H. Ellis, K. De Pauw, G. N. Christodoulou, J.-P. Luaute, E. Bidault, K. Szulecka

“…Preliminary data are reported from experiments in which Warrington's (1984) Recognition Memory Tests were given to patients with misidentification delusions including the Capgras type and to psychotic patients. …”
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The Mystery of “those icy climes” (Shelley 269): Literature, Science and Early Nineteenth-century Polar Exploration by Catherine Lanone

“…While glaciers become the sublime site of Romantic poetic epiphany, Mary Shelley subverts the euphoric associations of pristine settings by choosing to locate a crucial confrontation between creature and creator in the Alps, then by opting for Walton’s search for the North Pole and the Northwest Passage as a frame for Victor’s narrative. Walton’s delusion and search for an open sea ties in with the journals of contemporary expeditions, as if Mary Shelley had sensed that the jingoistic expeditions might turn into epic disasters. …”
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Progress and Criticism of Progress as a Characteristic of Modern Civilizations in the Work of Friedrich Nietzsche and Ludwig Wittgenstein by Ulrich Arnswald

“…He does not succumb to the delusions of grandeur of new, higher-level civilization, but leaves progress as the constantly progressing background noise of any civilization. …”
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Internet Memes as Stabilizers of Conspiracy Culture: A Cognitive Anthropological Analysis by Emily Godwin, Brittany I. Davidson, Tim Hill, Adam Joinson

“…Specifically, elements conveying the enduring “cultural themes” of Deception, Delusion, and Superiority function as “cultural resources” that stabilize the community’s culture. …”
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Schizophrenia-Like Psychotic Symptoms Associated to Leigh Syndrome by F. Jaballah, R. Ben Soussia Nouira, S. Mallouli, H. Boussaid, S. Younes, L. Zarrouk, S. Younes

“…He presented anxiety and auditory hallucinations, and he reported a vague, unsystematized delusion evolving since 6 months. Significant remission was observed at risperidone 3 mg/day. …”
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Seizures, Psychosis, and Cerebral Vascular Malformation: A Rare Chain of Events by Ismail Hanine, Khadija Benallel, Roukaya Benjelloun, Mohamed Kadiri

“…In this case, we describe a patient with no prior medical or psychiatric history having a cAVM diagnosed after showing psychotic symptoms (delusion and disorganized thoughts and behavior). The deep 4 × 5 cm cAVM was discovered after admitting the patient to psychiatric ward, the neurological cause has been considered after a recorded seizure, which brings the following question: Is the clinical presentation a direct result of the cAVM or is it postictal? …”
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Penser le Cthulhucène et son géotraumatisme : le cas Cyclonopedia de Reza Negarestani by Fabien Richert

“…The esoteric allure and sophistication of the argument, set against a backdrop of conspiracy theories, draws the reader into a paranoid delusion marked by a conspiracy fomented on a quasi-cosmic scale: the burning of oil, seen as a fundamental step in its own “satanic agenda”, is the key moment from which it can spread into the atmosphere. …”
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An MRI, SPECT and Neuropsychological Study of a Patient Presenting with Capgras Syndrome by J. Mackie, K. P. Ebmeier, R. E. O'Carroll

“…A 25 year old male patient presented with the “delusion of doubles” (Capgras syndrome). The patient underwent detailed neuropsychological, single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) investigations. …”
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Sheehan Syndrome Presenting with Psychotic Manifestations Mimicking Schizophrenia in a Young Female: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Nipun Lakshitha de Silva, Janith Galhenage, Madhubhashinee Dayabandara, Noel Somasundaram

“…A 32-year-old female was evaluated for fearfulness and delusions for one year. She had persecutory and bizarre delusions, delusion of thought possession, and elementary auditory hallucinations. …”
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Reasoning and interpretation cognitive biases related to psychotic characteristics: An umbrella-review. by Crystal Samson, Audrey Livet, Andy Gilker, Stephane Potvin, Veronik Sicard, Tania Lecomte

“…Regarding reasoning biases, moderate to high quality evidence with medium to large effect sizes were found for belief inflexibility when linked to delusion conviction and global severity in people with active delusions, although measures from the MADS, overlapping with symptoms, may have inflated effect sizes. …”
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Folie à Deux in the Setting of COVID-19 Quarantine by Maxsaya Baez Nuñez, Ezequiel Rodriguez, Matthew DeLuca, Krishan Chirimunj, Monica Dhingra

“…Delusions classically transmit from one person, coined the inducer, to one or several individuals, the induced, who share and may expand on the communicated delusions. …”
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Relapse of Psychosis Status Post Meningioma Resection by Hamza Mohammad-Amin, Amber N. Edinoff, Haseeb A. Akuly, Prithvi Doppalapudi, Rita Horton, Anthony Sin, Donard Dwyer, City Mohammad Amin, Sana Shamim

“…Meningioma resection resulted in the cessation of hallucinations and delusions for one week. However, the patient was brought back to the emergency department because her auditory hallucinations and delusions returned. …”
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When the Patient Believes That the Organs Are Destroyed: Manifestation of Cotard’s Syndrome by Leonardo Machado, Luiz Evandro de Lima Filho, Liliane Machado

“…Cotard’s Syndrome (CS) is a rare clinical event described for the first time in 1880 by the neurologist and psychiatrist Jules Cotard and characterized by negation delusions (or nihilists). Immortality and hypochondriac delusions are also typical. …”
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Women Reprimanding Women: The Gothic Parody and its Social Criticism by Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

“…While both novels thus discuss the dangers of confusing reality and fiction, their targets for ridicule, the degree to which the respective characters are affected by their delusions, and the degree of “real” danger these delusions can cause differ significantly.…”
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Differential Diagnosis of an Elderly Manic-Depressive Patient with Depersonalization and Other Symptoms by Shigehiro Ogata, Yu Itohiya, Yuri Sakamoto, Yuki Sato, Yudai Suyama, Hidenori Atsuta, Ken Iwata

“…The case study of an elderly man having persecutory delusions and bizarre complaints at the first psychiatric interview is reported. …”
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