- Delusion, Delusional Disorder
- See French Chronic Delusional States (from 1909); Paranoia; Paraphrenia; Psychosis: Emergence; Schizophrenia: Emergence.
Edward Shorter. 2014.
Delusion, Delusional Disorder
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