Paranoia is a self-inflicted mental torture of which the sufferer himself is unaware. A paranoiac is perpetually guarded and suspicious, convinced that he is being persecuted by all who inhabit his deluded world.

Abstract Background Paranoia is common in the general population. Focusing on values and enhancing value-based acts may attenuate it. This study compared three brief (30-min, self-directed) online conditions: focusing goal setting (n = 30), only 32) non-values/goals control a high paranoia sample. Methods Participants were randomly assigned to condition. State (primary outcome) positive negativ...

Este estudo objetiva propor uma abertura da psicanálise à história por meio noção de paranoia. Uma categoria tradicional clínica, sua construção remonta ao círculo freudiano e o célebre caso do presidente Schreber para se espraiar no século XX-XXI nas obras Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Gilles Deleuze Slavoj Zizek. Percorrendo os usos estes filósofos, psicanalistas sociólogos, podemos retraba...

BACKGROUND Research has shown that paranoia may directly build on negative ideas about the self. Feeling inferior can lead to ideas of vulnerability. The clinical prediction is that decreasing negative self cognitions will reduce paranoia. METHOD Thirty patients with persistent persecutory delusions were randomised to receive brief CBT in addition to standard care or to standard care (ISRCTN0...

INTRODUCTION Dynamic relationships between the symptoms of psychosis can be shown in individual networks of psychopathology. In a single patient, data collected with the Experience Sampling Method (ESM-a method to construct intensive time series of experience and context) can be used to study lagged associations between symptoms in relation to illness severity and pharmacological treatment. M...

Environmental noise causes cognitive impairment, particularly in executive function and episodic memory domains, in healthy populations. However, the possible moderating influences on this relationship are less clear. This study assessed 54 healthy participants (24 men) on a cognitive battery (measuring psychomotor speed, attention, executive function, working memory, and verbal learning and me...