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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.
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cover next page > Cover title: author: publisher: isbn10 | asin: print isbn13: ebook isbn13: language: subject publication date: lcc: ddc: subject: Paranoia : The Psychology of Persecutory Delusions Maudsley Monographs, 0076-5465 ; No. 45 Freeman, Daniel.; Garety, Philippa A. Taylor & Francis Routledge 184169522X 9781841695228 9780203508633 English Paranoia, Delusions, Paranoid Disorders--psychology, Cognition, Delusions--psychology, Emotions, Models, Psychological, Paranoïa, Délire. 2004 RC520.F724 2004eb 616.89/7 Paranoia, Delusions, Paranoid Disorders--psychology, Cognition, Delusions--psychology, Emotions, Models, Psychological, Paranoïa, Délire. cover next page > < previous=""> page_a_2 next page > Page a-2 This page intentionally left blank. < previous=""> page_a_2 next page > cover next page > Cover title: author: publisher: isbn10 | asin: print isbn13: ebook isbn13: language: subject publication date: lcc: ddc: subject: Paranoia : The Psychology of Persecutory Delusions Maudsley Monographs, 0076-5465 ; No. 45 Freeman, Daniel.; Garety, Philippa A. Taylor & Francis Routledge 184169522X 9781841695228 9780203508633 English Paranoia, Delusions, Paranoid Disorders--psychology, Cognition, Delusions--psychology, Emotions, Models, Psychological, Paranoïa, Délire. 2004 RC520.F724 2004eb 616.89/7 Paranoia, Delusions, Paranoid Disorders--psychology, Cognition, Delusions--psychology, Emotions, Models, Psychological, Paranoïa, Délire. cover next page > < previous=""> page_i next page > page_i next page > Page i THE MAUDSLEY Maudsley Monographs < previous=""> < previous=""> page_ii next page > Page ii MAUDSLEY MONOGRAPHS HENRY MAUDSLEY, from whom the series of monographs takes its name, was the founder of The Maudsley Hospital and the most prominent English psychiatrist of his generation. The Maudsley Hospital was united with the Bethlem Royal Hospital in 1948 and its medical school, renamed the Institute of Psychiatry at the same time, became a constituent part of the British Postgraduate Medical Federation. It is now a school of King’s College, London, and entrusted with the duty of advancing psychiatry by teaching and research. The South London & Maudsley NHS Trust, together with the Institute of Psychiatry, are jointly known as The Maudsley. The monograph series reports high quality empirical work on a single topic of relevance to mental health, carried out at the Maudsley. This can be by single or multiple authors. Some of the monographs are directly concerned with clinical problems; others, are in scientific fields of direct or indirect relevance to mental health a