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DELUSION REFERENCE [3 records]

Record 1 2024-11-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychoses
DEF

[A delusion in which a person has] the conviction that whatever happens in the world has an intended meaning for the subject.

CONT

Patients may, for example, believe that certain news bulletins have a direct reference to them, that music played on the radio is played for them, or that car licence plates have a meaning relevant to them. Ideas of reference differ from delusions of reference in that insight is retained.

CONT

The delusion of reference is typically a part of a paranoid persecutory system, and the patient misinterprets anything that happens in reality as a sign that his imagined persecutors are about to succeed in harming him.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychoses
DEF

[Délire dans lequel] l'individu croit à tort que tout ce qui l'entoure ou ce qui se passe possède une signification personnelle.

CONT

Le délire de référence conduit, par exemple, le patient à croire avec une très forte conviction que les médias, les journaux, la télévision parlent de lui.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Psicosis
DEF

Convicción de que los hechos, objetos o la gente del ambiente más próximo tienen un significado particular e inusual (normalmente negativo).

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Record 2 2018-12-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mental Disorders
  • Symptoms (Medicine)
  • Clinical Psychology
DEF

An idea, held less firmly than a delusion, that events, objects, or other people in the person’s immediate environment have a particular and unusual meaning specifically for him or her.

CONT

When people have ideas of reference, they believe that events in the environment pertain to them, although there is actually no connection.

OBS

An idea of reference is to be distinguished from a delusion of reference, in which there is a belief that is held with delusional conviction.

OBS

idea of reference: term usually used in the plural.

Key term(s)
  • ideas of reference

French

Domaine(s)
  • Troubles mentaux
  • Symptômes (Médecine)
  • Psychologie clinique
OBS

Le patient pense que des remarques sans importance, des évènements ou des situations banals, le concernent personnellement et revêtent pour lui seul un sens particulier.

OBS

Une idée de référence doit être distinguée d'une idée délirante de référence, dans laquelle on observe une conviction délirante dans la croyance.

OBS

idée de référence : terme habituellement utilisé au pluriel.

Key term(s)
  • idées de référence

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Trastornos mentales
  • Síntomas (Medicina)
  • Psicología clínica
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Record 3 2010-11-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Clinical Psychology
CONT

…Sensitive Delusion of Reference(SDR). It is characterized by persecutory, referential and/or erotic delusions in individuals of a "sensitive" type of personality : introverted people whose inner world of feelings is strongly and ethically coloured, and who suffer from hidden and persistent emotional tension.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie clinique
DEF

Trouble clinique décrit par Ernst Kretschmer qui se développe chez les personnes ayant une personnalité paranoïaque sensitive, c'est-à-dire qui ont tous les traits de la personnalité paranoïaque, mais qui sont toutefois des gens timides, introvertis et qui manquent de confiance en soi.

Spanish

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