TY - JOUR A1 - Iyassu, R A1 - Jolley, S A1 - Bebbington, P A1 - Dunn, G A1 - Emsley, R A1 - Freeman, D A1 - Fowler, D A1 - Hardy, A A1 - Waller, H A1 - Kuipers, E A1 - Garety, P JF - Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology SN - 0933-7954 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00127-013-0811-y N1 - (C) Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY) license [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/]. The CC BY license permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. IS - 7 VL - 49 SP - 1051 KW - Adolescent KW - Adult KW - Aged KW - Attitude KW - Cognitive Therapy KW - Delusions KW - Female KW - Humans KW - Logistic Models KW - Male KW - Middle Aged KW - Psychotic Disorders KW - Religion and Psychology KW - Self Concept KW - Young Adult ID - discovery1417778 N2 - Religious delusions are common and are considered to be particularly difficult to treat. In this study we investigated what psychological processes may underlie the reported treatment resistance. In particular, we focused on the perceptual, cognitive, affective and behavioural mechanisms held to maintain delusions in cognitive models of psychosis, as these form the key treatment targets in cognitive behavioural therapy. We compared religious delusions to delusions with other content. EP - 1061 AV - public Y1 - 2014/07// TI - Psychological characteristics of religious delusions ER -