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American Psychiatric Association. (1994). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (4th ed.). Washington, DC: Author.

Berner, P. (1975). Zum heutigen stand der wahnforschung [Present status of research on delusions]. Psychiatr Clin (Basel), 8, 1-13. (From English abstract in Medline.)

Bouchard, S., Vallieres, A., Roy, M.-A., & Maziade, M.(1996). Cognitive restructuring in the treatment of psychotic symptoms in schizophrenia: a critical analysis. Behavior Therapy, 27, 257-277.

Butler, R. W., & Braff, D. L. (1991). Delusions: A review and integration. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 17, 633-647.

Chapman, L. J., & Chapman, J. P. (1988). The genesis of delusions. In T. F. Oltmanns & B. A. Maher (Eds.), Delusional beliefs (pp.167-183). New York: Wiley.

Cutting, J. (1997). Principles of psychopathology. New York: Oxford University Press.

Eisen, J. L., Phillips, K. A., Baer, L., Beer, D. A., Atala, K. D., & Rasmussen, S. A.(1998). The Brown Assessment of Beliefs Scale: Reliability and validity. American Journal of Psychiatry, 155, 102-108.

Eisen, J. L., Rasmussen, S. A., Phillips, K. A , Lydiard, R. B., & Pigott, T. A. (1995). Does degree of insight in OCD predict improvement? In New Research Program and Abstracts, 148th Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association (p. 154). Washington, DC: APA.

Garety, P. (1985). Delusions: Problems in definition and measurement. British Journal of Medical Psychology, 58, 25-34.

Garety, P. (1992). Making sense of delusions. Psychiatry, 55, 282-291.

George, L. & Neufeld, R. W. J. (1985). Cognition and symptomatology in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 11, 264-285.

Harrow, M., & Miller, J. G. (1980). Schizophrenic thought disorders and impaired perspective. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 89, 717-727.

Jaspers, K. (1963). General psychopathology (J. Hoenig & M. W. Hamilton, Trans.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Original work published 1923 & 1946

Jones, E. & Watson, J.P. (1997). Delusion, the overvalued idea and religious beliefs: a comparative analysis of their characteristics. British Journal of Psychiatry, 170, 381-384.

Kendler, K. S., Glazer, W. M., & Morgenstern, H. (1983). Dimensions of delusional experience. American Journal of Psychiatry, 140, 466-469.

Kendler, K. S. (1984). Paranoia (delusional disorder): a valid psychiatric entity? Trends in NeuroSciences, 7, 14-17.

Kihlstrom, J. F., & Hoyt, I. P. (1988). Hypnosis and the psychology of delusions. In T. F. Oltmanns & B. A. Maher (Eds.), Delusional beliefs (pp.66-109). New York: Wiley.

Kozak, M. J., & Foa, E. B. (1994). Obsessions, overvalued ideas, and delusions in obsessive-compulsive disorder. Behaviour Research & Therapy, 32, 343-353.

Krakauer, A. (2000). Pseudo-intuition and delusions. Unpublished manuscript.

Leeser, J. & O’Donohue, W. (1999). What is a delusion? Epistemological dimensions. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 108, 687-694.

Maher, B. A. (1974). Delusional thinking and perceptual disorder. Journal of Individual Psychology, 1974, 98-113.

Maher, B. A. (1988). Anomalous experience and delusional thinking: The logic of explanations. In T. F. Oltmanns & B. A. Maher (Eds.), Delusional beliefs (pp.15-33). New York: Wiley.

Maher, B. A., & Ross, J. S. (1984). Delusions. In H.E. Adams & P.B. Sutker (Eds.), Comprehensive handbook of psychopathology. New York: Plenum.

Maher, B. A., & Spitzer, M. (1993). Delusions. In P. B. Sutker & H. E. Adams (Eds.), Comprehensive handbook of psychopathology (2nd ed.). New York: Plenum.

Malloy, P. F. & Richardson, E. D. (1994). The frontal lobes and content-specific delusions. Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, 6, 455-466.

McAllister, T. W. (1992). Neuropsychiatric aspects of delusions. Psychiatric Annals, 22, 269-277.

McKenna, P.J. (1984). Disorders with overvalued ideas. British Journal of Psychiatry, 145, 579-585.

McKenna, P. J. (1991). Memory, knowledge and delusions. British Journal of Psychiatry,159(Suppl. 14), 36-41.

Neufeldt, V., & Guralnik, D. B. (Eds.). (1988). Webster’s new world dictionary(3rd college ed.) New York: Webster’s New World.

Oltmanns, T. F. (1988). Approaches to the definition and study of delusions. In T. F. Oltmanns & B. A. Maher (Eds.), Delusional beliefs (pp.3-11). New York: Wiley.

Opler, L. A., Klahr, D. M., & Ramirez, P. M. (1995). Pharmacologic treatment of delusions. The Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 18, 379-391.

Oulis, P. G., Mavreas, V. G., Mamounas, J. M., & Stefanis, C. N. (1996). Formal clinical characteristics of delusional beliefs. Psychopathology, 29, 201-208.

Phillips, K. A., Dwight, M. M., McElroy, S. L. (1998). Efficacy and safety of fluvoxamine in body dysmorphic disorder. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 59, 165-171.

Pies, R. W. (1997). Must we now consider SRIs neuroleptics? Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology, 17, 443-445.

Podvoll, E. M. (1990). The seduction of madness. New York: HarperCollins.

Reed, G. (1988). The psychology of anomalous experience: A cognitive approach (rev. ed.). Buffalo, NY: Prometheus.

Roberts, G. (1992). The origins of delusion. British Journal of Psychiatry, 161, 298-308.

Sacks, M.H., Carpenter, W.T., & Strauss, J.S. (1974). Recovery from delusions. Archives of General Psychiatry, 30, 117-120.

Schneider, K. (1974). The concept of delusion (H. Marshall, Trans.). In S. R. Hirsch, & M. Shepherd (Eds.), Themes and variations in European psychiatry: An anthology (pp. 33-39). Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia (check!). (Original work published 1949)

Schneider, K. (1959). Clinical psychopathology (5th rev.ed.). New York: Grune & Stratton.

Sigmund, D. (1998). Wahn und intuition [Delusions and intuition.] Nervenarzt, 69, 390-400. (From English abstract in Medline.)

Spitzer, M. (1990). On defining delusions. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 31, 377-397.

Strauss, J.S. (1969). Hallucinations and delusions as points on continua function. Archives of General Psychiatry, 21, 581-586.

Wakefield, J. C. (1999). Evolutionary versus prototype analyses of the concept of disorder. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 108,374-399.

Walker, C. (1991). Delusion: What did Jaspers really say? British Journal of Psychiatry, 159 (Suppl. 14), 94-103.