Faith or Delusion? At the Crossroads of Religion and Psychosis

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  title={Faith or Delusion? At the Crossroads of Religion and Psychosis},
  author={Joseph M. Pierre},
  journal={Journal of Psychiatric Practice},
  year={2001},
  volume={7},
  pages={163-172},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:22897500}
}
Recognition of social dynamics and the possibility of entire delusional subcultures is necessary in the assessment of group beliefs, and a dimensional approach to delusional thinking may be useful in examining what is and is not pathological.
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