A woman diagnosed with schizophrenia announces that she has a plan to end poverty and homelessness in the world and that the Pope has given her secret instructions on how this can be accomplished. Her thinking is indicative of a delusion of

A. persecution.
B. thought insertion.
C. grandeur.
D. reference.


Answer: C

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