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The Anatomy of Bias and Illusion, Volume 3: Clinical-Cognitive Illusions
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Series: The Anatomy of Bias and Illusion, Book 3
General PoetryGeneral Psychology
Publisher: Henry Piironen
Published: Feb 27 2026
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What happens when ordinary cognitive distortions intensify, solidify, and begin to structure lived reality?
Volume 3: Clinical-Cognitive Illusions examines the patterns of thought that underlie anxiety, depression, executive dysfunction, psychosis, bipolar disorder, paranoia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, trauma, somatic symptom conditions, eating disorders, substance use, personality disorders, and suicidal ideation. Across seventeen chapters, it maps the recurrent distortions that amplify fear, narrow time horizons, reshape identity, misattribute agency, and fuse imagination with perception.
This volume does not pathologize individuals. Instead, it identifies the cognitive architectures that become rigid, recursive, and self-reinforcing under psychological strain. Threat magnification, hopelessness loops, grandiosity surges, compulsive certainty-seeking, persecutory patterning, memory fragmentation, temporal distortion, and self-concept instability are analyzed as structured illusion systems rather than isolated symptoms.
From trauma-related memory distortions to mood-congruent perception, from ritualized safety behaviors to reality-monitoring failures, this book presents a systematic taxonomy of how the mind can construct internally coherent worlds that drift from shared reality, exploring them through first person, cognitive order, bias or illusion forming phenomenological stanzas..
Clinical in scope and analytical in tone, Volume 3 expands the project of The Anatomy of Bias and Illusion into the domain where cognition, emotion, and identity converge under pressure, revealing how illusion can become lived experience.
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