A Psychological Analysis of Three Delusional States
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are guided and controlled by some outside power, whether this power be God, an electric machine, a malicious enemy or a hypnotist makes no intrinsic difference; (2) The feeling of the unreality of the external world, objective experience; and (3) The feeling of the unreality of one's self, subjective experience. Before attempting an analysis, I shall briefly describe a number of cases, which present these symptoms in various forms.
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