autopsychic delusion

autopsychic delusion

a delusion about one’s personality. It is thus distinguished from an allopsychic delusion, which refers to the outside world, and a somatic delusion, which refers to one’s own body. [defined by German neurologist Karl Wernicke (1848–1905)]

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