OBJECTIVES To investigate whether there are two stable types of paranoia, 'poor me' and 'bad me', as described by Trower and Chadwick (1995), and whether beliefs about the deservedness of persecution are associated with psychological measures. METHODS In-patients experiencing persecutory delusions were assigned either to 'poor me' (PM) or 'bad me'(BM) groups, according to their rating of a pe...

OBJECTIVE High rates of psychotic experiences among detained adolescents have been reported. However, the significance of psychotic experiences in detained juveniles is still poorly understood. The current study, therefore, (1) examines whether psychotic experiences could be explained by substance use and/or traumatic experiences, and (2) investigates this objective without taking into account ...

Social disturbances are common in schizophrenia and can be quite severe, significantly affecting functioning in a variety of ways. Yet the kinds of social disruptions experienced by persons with schizophrenia show a great deal of variability and are difficult to explain with available data. This article considers the variety of intersubjective disturbances that can occur in schizophrenia from a...

no novelty and has been done in even the earliest text-books on the subjects, still the cases are presented in such coloquial language and modern form that the types become arresting and will doubtless remain long in the memory. The maniac-depressive chapter is particularly well done, also that on paranoia and here, as in other types, the writers describe the earlier phases and demonstrate to t...

During the winter of 1692 eight girls came down with a mysterious and terrifying illness in the colonial town of Salem, Massachusetts. They vomited, screamed incomprehensibly, claimed to see things that weren’t there, felt the crawling and pricking of invisible needles against their skin, and convulsed and contorted into impossible positions. Physicians were called to examine the girls, but the...

This paper aims to understand the nature of the anger response and explore the relationship between anger, shame, depression and paranoia beliefs. The sample consists of 208 individuals from the general population, with a mean age of 32.67 years. Results show that external shame and depressive symptoms have a signifi cant and independent contribution to current feelings of anger (state-anger) a...

As users’ and companies’ dependence on shared, networked data continues to increase, the protection of this data from prying eyes or malicious hands becomes more and more critical. There are a variety of ways to ensure the security of data and the integrity of data transfer, depending on the set of anticipated attacks, the level of paranoia on the part of the data owners, and the level of incon...