Abstract
Psychiatric terms readily find their way into everyday vocabulary and en passage lose their specific meaning. Thus, “delusions” became other people’s beliefs with which we strongly disagree or of which we disapprove. Not so in clinical practice; to describe some one as being deluded has important implications because it denotes the presence of a serious mental illness and one that often brings with it special problems in management.
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Schapira, K. (1987). Deluded patients. In: Pollitt, J.D. (eds) Psychiatric Emergencies in Family Practice. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3191-6_1
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