"Sleights of mind": Delusions, defences, and self-deception

Cognitive Neuropsychiatry

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 305-326

  McKay, Ryan ^a   Langdon, Robyn ^a   Coltheart, Max ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOSOGNOSIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; DELUSION; DENIAL; HUMAN; JEALOUS DELUSION; MOTIVATION; NEUROLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHODYNAMICS; PSYCHOGENESIS; PSYCHOLOGY; SELF EVALUATION;

EID: 23744491660     PISSN: 13546805     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13546800444000074     Document Type: Article

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