Delusional disorder is a psychiatric diagnosis denoting a psychotic mental illness that involves holding one or more non-bizarre delusions in the absence of any other significant signs or symptoms of mental illness).

There are many different types of Delusional Disorders; The one I found interesting was Delusions of influence, and if any of you know me, you will see why I enjoy this one.

Delusions of influence make them feel that someone else is guiding their actions, and certain kinds of their hallucinations seem to be misinterpretations of their own inner voice as an external voice, the common denominator being that self-produced information is perceived as if coming from outside.
http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0960982205005646

^---Sound like anyone we know?

So when somebody (like our president) claims to be influenced by an external force (God) you now know the proper term to call them instead of just bat shit crazy.

Delusions of influence make them feel that someone else is guiding their actions, and certain kinds of their hallucinations seem to be misinterpretations of their own inner voice as an external voice

That sounds a lot like the bicameralism hypothesis.

Every President we've had has been off their rocker to one degree or another. I didn't expect G.W. to be an exception.

Every President we've had has been off their rocker to one degree or another. I didn't expect G.W. to be an exception.

Remember cream floats to the top in milk?

Some people say in politics, its scum that rises to the top.

Some people believe what William S. Burroughs did when he said,

We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.

Some people believe that they are completely psychotic, and when we elevate them to that position of power, they feel the need to make the outside world the way they feel inside ... and that all this war and anger we see in society are the branches of problems rooted deep within the human psyche.

That sounds a lot like the bicameralism hypothesis.

I rather enjoy the bicameralist hypothesis, but this is something seperate. Supposedly religion is holdover from human kinds ancient bicameral mind and cults seek to re-create the distinct division in right and left brain that is the bicameral mind.

Whether or not this is true, remains debatable. I for one, however, believe it is true.

Delusions of Influence is a recognized mental abnormality. It is akin to Delusions of Grandeur or many of the other recognized delusions in mind sciences. It can and does exist independant of bicameralism hypothesis. I think the idea of a bicameral mind, adds weight to the origins and possible causes of Delusions of Influence.

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I had not heard much about what Burroughs has said, though I find it intriguing, and rather plausible.