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ideas of reference

Psychiatry Incorrect interpretation of casual incidents and external events as having direct reference to oneself, which may be suffficiently intense as to constitute delusions

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Mental status examination revealed poor grooming and hygiene, increased psychomotor activity, rapport not established, eye-to-eye contact established, but not maintained, with irritable affect, delusions of reference and persecution, elementary auditory hallucinations and insight grade I/V.

Acute psychosis as the initial presentation of MS: a case report

(1) Grandiose delusions are the third most common delusions after persecutory delusions and delusions of reference. Ben-Zeev et al (2) proposed that GDs may be a more stable state of mind that is predisposed by past life experiences or imaginations, and may be less associated with contextual triggers.

Cognitive and affective perspectives on formation and maintenance of grandiose delusions of a patient with schizophrenia