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Paranoia: The Psychology of Persecutory Delusions
Paranoia is the suspicion that other intend to cause you harm. It is a common experience in the general population, though often overlooked. In its most severe form, paranoia occurs as persecutory delusions.
Paranoia , written by leading researchers in this field, is the first cognitive psychology book to have persecutory delusions as its focus. Scholarly, comprehensive and illustrated by clinical examples throughout, this study defines the phenomena in detail and analyses the content of persecutory delusions. It reviews previous psychological writings, explores the relationship between psychosis and neurosis, reports on innovative empirical studies with patients, and highlights future essential research directions.
Paranoia outlines a new theoretical model of the formation and maintenance of persecutory delusions, providing an excellent guide to this important clinical topic. It will be of great interest and use to all psychiatrists and clinical psychologists who work in this field.
Paranoia , written by leading researchers in this field, is the first cognitive psychology book to have persecutory delusions as its focus. Scholarly, comprehensive and illustrated by clinical examples throughout, this study defines the phenomena in detail and analyses the content of persecutory delusions. It reviews previous psychological writings, explores the relationship between psychosis and neurosis, reports on innovative empirical studies with patients, and highlights future essential research directions.
Paranoia outlines a new theoretical model of the formation and maintenance of persecutory delusions, providing an excellent guide to this important clinical topic. It will be of great interest and use to all psychiatrists and clinical psychologists who work in this field.
204 pages, Hardcover
First published May 20, 2004
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April 3, 2024ly freeman rlly pulling through for the diss😘
May 18, 2023
I didn't finish reading the entirety of this book. The book is laid out with research articles one after another, and I'm more interested in Dr Daniel Freeman's current work, using virtual reality to treat individuals with psychosis, than the articles published in this book.
At the same time as reading this, I watched a documentary ('Confessions of an Alien Abductee' on Netflix) about people who were (most likely) suffering from persecutory delusions. This symptom appears to be much more common than one would expect, and it doesn't always have to be people in terror, claiming that the FBI are after them or that aliens are trying to abduct them. Less intense, but still unnerving, persecutory delusions might be thinking that everyone dislikes you, someone is following you, or you're being watched. Virtual reality provides controlled, complex environments, that can allow researchers to understand people's difficulties with persecutory delusions better and how to treat it. Though I didn't finish this book, I do recommend checking out Freeman's research.
At the same time as reading this, I watched a documentary ('Confessions of an Alien Abductee' on Netflix) about people who were (most likely) suffering from persecutory delusions. This symptom appears to be much more common than one would expect, and it doesn't always have to be people in terror, claiming that the FBI are after them or that aliens are trying to abduct them. Less intense, but still unnerving, persecutory delusions might be thinking that everyone dislikes you, someone is following you, or you're being watched. Virtual reality provides controlled, complex environments, that can allow researchers to understand people's difficulties with persecutory delusions better and how to treat it. Though I didn't finish this book, I do recommend checking out Freeman's research.
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