Delusional intuition is an
illusion
An illusion is a distortion of the senses, which can reveal how the mind normally organizes and interprets sensory stimulation. Although illusions distort the human perception of reality, they are generally shared by most people.
Illusions may oc ...
in the context of the intuitive rather than an experience of false
intuition
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. The person experiences something that resembles the intuitive, but instead, the experience is qualified as
delirious
Delirious may refer to:
* A state of delirium
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. This illusion is also described as
autochthonous
Autochthon, autochthons or autochthonous may refer to:
Fiction
* Autochthon (Atlantis), a character in Plato's myth of Atlantis
* Autochthons, characters in the novel ''The Divine Invasion'' by Philip K. Dick
* Autochthon, a Primordial in the ...
.
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.
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.
Is a term relevant to the fields of psychiatry and psychology and describe the expression of thought(s) that have no apparent basis in inference. 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'', translated into a delusionary vehicle with the conviction of "immediate enlightenment" (Leon ''et al'' 1989)
[R.H. McAllister-Williams 1997 ] that occurs as a delire d'embléé ''
i.e.'' complete in the actual instance. The delusion as defined
autochthonous
Autochthon, autochthons or autochthonous may refer to:
Fiction
* Autochthon (Atlantis), a character in Plato's myth of Atlantis
* Autochthons, characters in the novel ''The Divine Invasion'' by Philip K. Dick
* Autochthon, a Primordial in the ...
in this context is known as ''primary'' (
Jaspers 1963).
Occurrence
The delusion is found described in clinical settings as a description of medical symptom of the psychotic illness known as schizophrenia, and is known within that milieu as a first rank symptom The delusional ideation sometimes occurs from a ''prior delusional mood'' (
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1985).
According to the
Klaus Conrad
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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 page]
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See also
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Glossary of psychiatry
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References
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symptoms of schizophrenia
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