Note 38 — Chapter III · Psychological Analysis and Re-education.

“... for example, a patient may maintain that he is the king, but that an organised conspiracy exists to deprive him of his birthright. In this way delusions are sometimes elaborated into an extraordinarily complicated system and every fact of the patient’s experience is distorted until it is capable of taking its place in the delusional scheme.” Bernard Hart, The Psychology of Insanity, Cambridge, 1914, p. 32.