‘INTERNET DELUSION’ RESPONSIVE TO COGNITIVE THERAPY

Delusions are known to be influenced by the popular media, the sociopolitical undercurrents and also by the scientific innovations. Internet is one such modern communication tool, which can easily be incorporated into the delusional system of patients by virtue of its semblance to some psychopatholo...

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Autores principales: Duggal, Harpreet S., Jagadheesan, K., Nizamie, Haque S.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2002
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2954403/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21206587
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author Duggal, Harpreet S.
Jagadheesan, K.
Nizamie, Haque S.
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description Delusions are known to be influenced by the popular media, the sociopolitical undercurrents and also by the scientific innovations. Internet is one such modern communication tool, which can easily be incorporated into the delusional system of patients by virtue of its semblance to some psychopathological phenomena. We describe a patient with paranoid schizophrenia who developed a delusion about the Internet controlling him but showed a good response to cognitive therapy.
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spelling pubmed-29544032011-01-04 ‘INTERNET DELUSION’ RESPONSIVE TO COGNITIVE THERAPY Duggal, Harpreet S. Jagadheesan, K. Nizamie, Haque S. Indian J Psychiatry Case Report Delusions are known to be influenced by the popular media, the sociopolitical undercurrents and also by the scientific innovations. Internet is one such modern communication tool, which can easily be incorporated into the delusional system of patients by virtue of its semblance to some psychopathological phenomena. We describe a patient with paranoid schizophrenia who developed a delusion about the Internet controlling him but showed a good response to cognitive therapy. Medknow Publications 2002 /pmc/articles/PMC2954403/ /pubmed/21206587 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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‘INTERNET DELUSION’ RESPONSIVE TO COGNITIVE THERAPY
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title_full ‘INTERNET DELUSION’ RESPONSIVE TO COGNITIVE THERAPY
title_fullStr ‘INTERNET DELUSION’ RESPONSIVE TO COGNITIVE THERAPY
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title_short ‘INTERNET DELUSION’ RESPONSIVE TO COGNITIVE THERAPY
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