OBJECTIVES Cocaine consumption can induce transient psychotic symptoms expressed as paranoia or hallucinations. This work reviews that evidence and tries to obtain data regarding frequency of psychotic symptoms or cocaine induced psychosis (CIP), risks or associated factors. METHOD Systematic review of studies found in PubMed database published until January 2011 where cocaine induced paranoi...

BACKGROUND For many patients with persecutory delusions, leaving home and going into crowded streets is a key clinical problem. In this study we aimed to inform treatment development by determining the psychological mechanisms whereby busy urban environments increase paranoia. In a randomized design with prespecified mediation analysis, we compared the effects on patients of going outside into ...

Abstract. Experiences of bullying in the workplace can increase anxiety, paranoia, and hypervigilance to threat victims. Such factors are also associated with conspiracy beliefs. Two preregistered studies (cross-sectional experimental) tested whether experiences may be linked development Study 1 ( n = 273) demonstrated that were positively beliefs, an effect could explained by paranoia. In 2 20...

Looking at the academic literature and media commentary, one can detect a shift in the identification of northern protestants. Once they were identified, and identified themselves in terms of modernity, triumph, and rationalism; increasingly they are identified and identify themselves in terms of tradition, defeat and associated emotions such as confusion, alienation, fatalism, resentment, fear...

Recently, it has been suggested that thought control strategies aimed at controlling unwanted thoughts may be used to cope with paranoid thoughts in both clinical and nonclinical samples. The current study aims to examine the type of thought control strategies that were associated with the frequency of paranoid thoughts in nonclinical samples. A total of 159 Japanese undergraduate students comp...

The clinical negligence system is the means by which patients who can be proved to have received unsatisfactory (i.e. negligent) medical care can receive compensation. Debate about the way in which the UK (and others) achieve this, and whether suitable alternatives are available, has never been far away from this understandably sensitive topic. Current policy debate illustrates the perceived ca...

Effective interventions for treating social anxiety in psychosis, and understanding mechanisms between to paranoia are limited. This study investigated stigma, internal external shame, rank appraisals, self-esteem safety behaviours as mediators cross-cultural Thai UK samples. Participants aged ≥18-year-old completed a cross-sectional internet-delivered survey. Social anxiety, paranoia, depressi...

In Boston we took the availability and quality of our tap water for granted until May 1, 2010, when a major water pipe break interrupted water service to two million Greater Boston residents. Information spread quickly to citizens about the problem and what to do, all the more notable because the water main break occurred on a Saturday. In this age of consumer paranoia about withheld informatio...

Abstract Background Paranoia in adolescents is common, but research on attenuating it scarce. Focusing values and enhancing value-based acts a low intensity method for paranoia adults. This randomised trial compared brief (30-min, self-directed) values-plus-goals intervention to an active control with high nonclinical (Paranoia Scale ≥ 53), delivered schools. The study also investigated the rol...