MB26.8

ICD-11 MMS 2026-01

Referential thinking

Description

Ideation, not held with delusional intensity, that random or coincidental events are of particular and unusual significance to the person.

Index terms

  • Referential thinking

Excludes

Exclusions from above levels

  • 19 – Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period
  • JA66 – Clinical findings on antenatal screening of mother

Sibling codes

  • MB26.0 – Delusion
  • MB26.1 – Experiences of influence, passivity, and control
  • MB26.2 – Grandiosity
  • MB26.3 – Homicidal ideation
  • MB26.4 – Identity disturbance
  • MB26.5 – Obsessions
  • MB26.6 – Overvalued ideas
  • MB26.7 – Paranoid ideation
  • MB26.9 – Suspiciousness
  • MB26.A – Suicidal ideation
  • MB26.Y – Other specified symptoms or signs involving content of thought
  • MB26.Z – Symptoms or signs involving content of thought, unspecified

Foundation entity

Referential thinking – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/781153315

Part of: MB26: Symptoms or signs involving content of thought › 21: Symptoms, signs or clinical findings, not elsewhere classified