Delusional intuition
{{Short description|Type of mental illusion}}
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Delusional intuition is an illusion in the context of the intuitive rather than an experience of false intuition. The person experiences something that resembles the intuitive, but instead, the experience is qualified as delirious. This illusion is also described as autochthonous.
This description, in abnormal behavior, and communicated in abnormal speech, is translated from the German Wahneinfall. Delusional is, specifically, a false, capricious or whimsical opinion.
Delirious intuition is a relevant term for the fields of psychiatry and psychology and describes the expression of thoughts that have no apparent basis in inference. It usually happens in a clinical setting, is apparently impossible or improbable in the sense that the semantic relationships of the subjects within the content of speech they have no basis in reality, that is, it is from a thought that is delirious.David Christmas (NHS Tayside and University of Dundee) {{Cite web |url=http://www.trickcyclists.co.uk/pdf/Descriptive_Psychopathology.PDF |title=Archived copy |access-date=2012-01-20 |archive-date=2012-02-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120204133032/http://www.trickcyclists.co.uk/pdf/Descriptive_Psychopathology.PDF |url-status=dead }} ([http://www.trickcyclists.co.uk/index.htm homepage] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130522184441/http://www.trickcyclists.co.uk/index.htm |date=2013-05-22 }}) citing : Carl Wernicke
Description
This description of a psychological phenomenon, that is as observed in the form of expression within behaviour abnormally, and communicated in abnormal speech, is translated from the German Wahneinfall. Wahn translated is specifically a whimsy, false opinion, or fancy.[http://www.andrewsimscentre.nhs.uk/about-us.htm Andrew Sims] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130312141959/http://www.andrewsimscentre.nhs.uk/about-us.htm |date=2013-03-12 }} 1995 - Symptoms in the mind: an introduction to descriptive psychopathology - 422 pages [https://books.google.com/books?ei=mMYZT8LvBdCi-gblrvGyCg&sqi=2&id=DbNrAAAAMAAJ&dq=delusional+intuition&q=Wahneinfall+ Saunders] Retrieved 2012-01-17 {{ISBN|0-7020-1788-4}}P. Pichot 1985 - Clinical psychopathology: nomenclature and classification [https://books.google.com/books?id=r0oZAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Wahneinfall%22 Plenum Press] Retrieved 2012-01-17 {{ISBN|0-306-41601-8}}Understanding delusions -C. Kiran, S. Chaudhury Department of Psychiatry, Ranchi Institute of Neuropsychiatry and Allied Sciences, Kanke, Ranchi - 834 006, Jharkhand, India Ind Psychiatry J 2009;18:3-18 [http://www.industrialpsychiatry.org/article.asp?issn=0972-6748;year=2009;volume=18;issue=1;spage=3;epage=18;aulast=Kiran] {{doi|10.4103/0972-6748.57851|doi-access=free}} Retrieved 2012-01-31
It is a term relevant to the fields of psychiatry and psychology, since it describes the expression of thought(s) that have no apparent basis in inference.Jennifer Radden 2009 On Delusion - 160 pages Thinking in action [https://books.google.com/books?id=bEWeZ2TVwW8C&dq=Delusional+intuition+-+Wahneinfall&pg=PT52 Taylor & Francis] Retrieved 2012-01-17 {{ISBN|0-415-77447-0}} A phenomenological understanding is of an occurrence that is very much like the expression of the spontaneous occurrence of an inspirational idea, sprung from the soil,A. Munro 1999 - Delusional disorder: paranoia and related illnesses - 261 pages [https://books.google.com/books?id=tjZRqzXK2gkC&dq=autochthonous+delusion&pg=PA30 Cambridge University Press] Retrieved 2012-01-17S. Burza, B. Mougey, S. Perecherla, N. Talwar 2005 - Practice Examination Papers for the MRCPsych Part 1, Part 1 - 204 pages [https://books.google.com/books?id=Qo3lOaf3IiUC&dq=Delusional+intuition+-+Wahneinfall&pg=PA51 Radcliffe Publishing ] Retrieved 2012-01-17 translated into a delusionary vehicle with the conviction of "immediate enlightenment" (Leon et al 1989)R.H. McAllister-Williams 1997 {{cite journal | url =http://pb.rcpsych.org/content/21/6/346.full.pdf | title = The description of primary delusions : confusion in standard texts and amongst clinicians | date = 1997 | publisher = Psychiatric bulletin 21| doi = 10.1192/pb.21.6.346 | accessdate = 2012-01-20 | last1 = McAllister-Williams | first1 = R. H. | journal = Psychiatric Bulletin | volume = 21 | issue = 6 | pages = 346–349 }} that occurs as a delire d'emblée i.e. complete in the actual instance.Robert Jean Campbell 2009 - Campbell's psychiatric dictionary - 1051 pages [https://books.google.com/books?id=76vPu_G2UkgC&dq=autochthonous+delusion&pg=PA260 Oxford University Press] Retrieved 2012-01-17 {{ISBN|0-19-534159-7}}Raymond J. Corsini 2002 - The dictionary of psychology - 1156 pages [https://books.google.com/books?id=0uxnglHzYaoC&dq=autochthonous+delusion&pg=PA83 Psychology Press] Retrieved 2012-01-17 {{ISBN|1-58391-328-9}} The delusion defined as autochthonous in this context is known as primary (Jaspers 1963).Robin Murray (MD, M Phil, MRCP, MRC Psych.), Robin Murray 1997 (3rd edition) - The essentials of postgraduate psychiatry - 843 pages Oxford Handbooks Series [https://books.google.com/books?id=GnN2nEmpyIMC&dq=autochthonous+delusions&pg=PA23 Cambridge University Press, 28 Oct 1997 ] Retrieved 2012-01-17David Semple, Roger Smyth, Jonathan Burns - Oxford handbook of psychiatry - 953 pages [https://books.google.com/books?id=1MeRuoTs0loC&q=autochthonous+delusion&pg=PA87 Oxford University Press, 28 Apr 2005] Retrieved 2012-01-17 {{ISBN|0-19-852783-7}}Greg Wilkinson 2007 - Seminars in General Adult Psychiatry - 833 pages [https://books.google.com/books?id=6PGzHFuS1xkC&dq=autochthonous+delusion&pg=PA171 RCPsych Publications, 1 Jan 2007] Retrieved 2012-01-20
Occurrence
The delusion is found described in clinical settings as a description of medical symptom of the psychotic illness known as schizophrenia,Peter F. Liddle, Royal College of Psychiatrists 2001- Disordered mind and brain: the neural basis of mental symptoms - 301 pages [https://books.google.com/books?id=3IkzJ_8XNukC&dq=autochthonous+delusion&pg=PA87 RCPsych Publications] Retrieved 2012-01-17 {{ISBN|1-58391-328-9}}Mary Boyle 2002- Schizophrenia: a scientific delusion? - 362 pages [https://books.google.com/books?id=Wc9h-BvT9I0C&dq=delusion&pg=PR6 Routledge 5 Apr 2002] Retrieved 2012-01-17 {{ISBN|0-415-22718-6}} and is known within that milieu as a first rank symptom The delusional ideation sometimes occurs from a prior delusional mood (Fish 1985).Jennifer Barraclough, Dr. David Gill 1996 - Hughes' outline of modern psychiatry - 302 pages [https://books.google.com/books?id=vgTo3VLRPpAC&dq=autochthonous+delusions&pg=PA280 John Wiley & Sons] Retrieved 2012-01-17 {{ISBN|0-471-96358-5}} According to the Klaus Conrad 1958 account, grātia gratiam parit, the delusion occurs as a second order development of earlier delusionary thinking.Irving B. Weiner, W. Edward Craighead 2010 - The Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology, Volume 2 - 528 pages [https://books.google.com/books?id=pa5vKqntwikC&dq=apophany+delusion&pg=PA471 John Wiley and Sons, 19 Jan 2010] Retrieved 2012-01-22 {{ISBN|0-470-17026-3}}
See also
References
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- [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/delusion/ The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy]