Delusional paranoia has been associated with severe mental illness for over a century. Kraepelin introduced a disorder called "paranoid depression," but "paranoid" became linked to schizophrenia, not to mood disorders. Paranoid remains the most common subtype of schizophrenia, but some of these cases, as Kraepelin initially implied, may be unrecognized psychotic mood disorders, so the relations...

Because there is no evidence-based intervention for social anxiety in psychosis, and mechanisms of anxiety-paranoia continuum remain to be elucidated. We aimed investigate mediators between persecutory paranoia a prospective cross-cultural analogue sample using interventionist-causal models guide developments new treatments psychosis. This online survey included participants aged ≥18-year-old T...

Purpose Drawing on the literature victim precipitation theory, workplace ostracism (WO) and paranoia, this paper examines mediating role of WO paranoia–service performance (SP) relationship. This further postulates that team cognitive diversity (TCD) moderates paranoia–WO Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from 228 nurses a leading hospital located in an eastern province China. Hyp...

INNER WORLD of people with schizophrenia is often confused, punctuated by alien voices, paranoia and illogical thoughts. A fuller understanding of signaling in the brain of people with this disorder offers new hope for improved therapy

Survey results indicate more mental health problems among immigrants than in the native population in Sweden and in one country of departure, Finland. This is reflected in the high proportion of immigrants in the mental hospital studied, but not among psychiatric out-patients. The immigrant patient rate is high even in socially advantageous groups, eg. among married and employed persons. The di...

Antitrust theory is notoriously fractured along ideological lines. Interventionists stand ready to regulate at a moment’s notice, seeing anticompetitive effects lurking in the shadows every time competitors so much as exchange greetings on the street. The Hyde Park crowd responds to what they see as unjustified paranoia with quasireligious faith in the self-regulating efficiency of markets, tru...

BACKGROUND Paranoia is one of the most common symptoms of schizophrenia-spectrum disorders, and is associated with significant distress and disruption to the person's life. Developing more effective and accessible psychological interventions for paranoia is a clinical priority. Our research team has approached this challenge in two main ways: firstly, by adopting an interventionist causal appro...