ideas of influence

[ī′dē·əz əv ′in·flü·əns]

(psychology)

A clinical manifestation of certain psychotic disorders in which the patients may believe that their thoughts are read, that their limbs move without their consent, or that they are under the control of someone else or some external force or influence.

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Disregarding one's potential problems with ideas of influence and with relying heavily on oral history to prove influences (Christian Wolff's "Under the Influence" is a nice critical antidote to the idea of ''influence"; see A John Cage Reader: In Celebration of His 70th Birthday, ed.

Experimentalism Otherwise: the New York Avant-Garde and Its Limits

Likewise, Joseph Rost from the School of Education at San Diego University chose to emphasise ideas of influence in describing leadership as " ...