Types Diagnosis of a specific type of delusional disorder can sometimes be made based on the content of the delusions.

But we benefit from these delusions.

In France, too, citizens have no illusions.

Disorders Some illusions occur as result of an illness or a disorder.

Most of us live in a secular, liberal, disenchanted world.

In the case of Hussein, that fantasy may yet become real.

Imprisonment completed the evolution of the March combatants and left them free of illusions.

In addition, it demanded an investigation be opened into the case We are continuing to recruit young Mauritanians and offer them as sacrifices to the devil of illusion in northern Mali .

This way in which our brain works is the basis of an illusion.

Cave Of Illusions And WisdomThis cave was constructed to celebrate and honor the wisdom of King Solomon, and includes over 70 displays of optical illusions, labyrinths, self tests and other interactive challenges.

Rather than flirting with illusions, governments should confront the hard choices ahead of them.

Delusions also occur as symptoms of many other mental disorders, especially the other psychotic disorders.

At its best, this genre is part of America s gift to the rest of the world.

BERLIN The last illusions about what was called, until recently, the Arab Spring may have vanished.

While these types of illusions are not shared with everyone, they are typical of each condition.

A policy based on fiction and double standards is bound to fail sooner or later.

Because in visual illusions we can easily demonstrate the mistakes in cognitive illusion it's much, much harder to demonstrate to people the mistakes.

European illusions about Asia will no longer be directed at Russia, which, apart from its natural resources, will simply have nothing to offer.

Europe should have no illusions about this and should begin to prepare itself.

To a large extent, they are shared by followers of former President Jorge Quiroga and Samuel Doria Medina as well.

Instead, the roots of Taseer s assassination lay in the dark delusions of fanatical belief, his killing supposedly undertaken to protect the faith.

But not only Evo Morales movement is trapped by the illusions of dirigisme.

Unspecified type delusions that cannot be clearly determined or characterized in any of the categories in the specific types.

In particular, a delay in Serbia s integration into the EU could bring Tito inspired fantasies to the heart of the country s foreign and security policy.

The economic crisis destroyed illusions of sustained energy fueled growth through at least 2020, and the hubris that went with it.

One of the most famous of Donne's conceits is found in where he compares two lovers who are separated to the two legs of a compass.

Another favorite delusion in the West is to believe that Iran will surrender if pressure is steadily increased.

In 2005, the head of Rosoboronexport, Sergei Chemezov, said Let s have no illusions if we stop sending arms to export, then someone else will do it.

In short, audio illusions highlight areas where the human ear and brain, as organic, makeshift tools, differ from perfect audio receptors (for better or for worse).

There, it fed the Churchillian illusions of many a war president who dreamed of going down in history as freedom s heroic defender.

Visual effects are based on the principles of all illusions assumption, things are as we know them presumption, things will behave as we expect and context in reality, our knowledge of the world as we know it, such as scale.

Is it too unrealistic to hope that the Obama administration, which has so far been far too responsive to weak economics and strong politics, will stand up to these demands?

The just collapsed credit bubble, fueled by so called special investment vehicles, derivatives, collateralized debt obligations, and phony triple A ratings, was built on the illusions of mathematical modeling.

But Iran, too, harbors illusions, including the notion that it can count on support from non Western countries, or at least from some sort of Islamic caucus.

That is all the more poignant given that some damage, such as psychological trauma, if not addressed immediately can become irreparable, not to mention the dark despair of disillusionment.

The economic history of the former Soviet Union, Latin America, Africa, and Asia has been marked by inefficient public investment and misguided government interventions that have resulted in many white elephants.

Against this background, Chancellor Angela Merkel s third government, once it is formed, must rid the country of the illusions that are preventing it from playing a proactive and constructive role in ensuring that Europe functions as a union.

I said that America and Europe had too many illusions about democracy in Russia in the 1990 s, and were now going through a stage of disillusionment.

Al Seckel, a cognitive neuroscientist, explores the perceptual illusions that fool our brains. Loads of eye tricks help him prove that not only are we easily fooled, we kind of like it.

Indeed, American women have recently begun to film and export their own versions of this fantasy starting with the groundbreaking 1991 film Thelma and Louise and continuing in a growing trend of girl group travel and escape packages.

They only made it easier for people, in those areas of the world where there is a half believable story about a fabulous future economy, to indulge their fantasies.

He records a song called Blind Willie McTell, named after the blues singer, and the song is a voyage through the past, through a much darker time, but a simpler one, a time when musicians like Willie McTell had few illusions about what they did.

And, as Robert Jervis argued in Perception and Misperception in International Politics, published during the Cold War, the illusions that we create have an enormous influence on decision making even becoming a fundamental cause of conflict.

Rather than flirting with illusions, governments should confront the hard choices ahead of them. Relying on alternative remedies is sometimes necessary, but they are not painless.

The American fantasy of a final battle, in Falluja or elsewhere, or the capture of some terrorist mastermind, perpetuates a cycle of bloodletting that puts the world in peril.