Both Uses of
delude
in
In Cold Blood
- When rational motives are conspicuous (for example, when a man kills for personal gain) or when the irrational motives are accompanied by delusions or hallucinations (for example, a paranoid patient who kills his fantasied persecutor), the situation presents little problem to the psychiatrist.†
Chpt 4delusions = false beliefs
- By "simple," the diagnosticians meant that Andrews suffered no delusions, no false perceptions, no hallucinations, but the primary illness of separation of thinking from feeling.†
Chpt 4 *
Definition:
deceive (convince to have a false belief)