Combining the insights of a gifted research scientist with vivid tales that are usually the realm of the novelist, Dr. Ronald Siegel lets his readers experience the suspicion, terror, and rage that possess the mind of the paranoid. This is the first book to investigate the actua…
BackgroundMany kinds of beliefs can be held both strongly and emotionally, which means that they can prove difficult to change. Such beliefs can be either pathological (e.g. delusions) or non-pathological (e.g. religious, political and supernatural beliefs as well as belief in c…
A girl begins to question why she and her parents wear monstrous masks they have never, ever taken off, though she may have been better off not knowing. An insomniac spends every night watched by a dark, silent figure in the bedroom, and while this figure disappears by morning, …
How psychosis is conceptualised shapes every aspect of how it is studied. It affects the samples it is explored within, the psychometric scales used to measure it, and the statistical paradigms used to analyse it. If this conceptual foundation is not sound, it has extensive rami…
The present thesis presents the first known systematic investigation of the personal goals and motivations of people with persecutory delusions. Motivational characteristics of goals are both theoretically implicated in symptom persistence and clinically relevant to the refineme…
Background: Social cognitive deficits are considered to be central to the interpersonal problems experienced by individuals with a diagnosis of Asperger syndrome, but existing research evidence regarding mentalising ability and emotion recognition ability is difficult to interpr…
Background. Previous studies have shown that the use of simulated social environments permits paranoid thinking to be studied. These studies have used a cognitive model of paranoia and suggest that anxiety is an important part of the paranoid experience. Additionally, research a…
This dissertation identifies how four contemporary Iberian crime fiction novels similarly construct a paranoid reading. The project’s novels include: Secretos de Arenal by Félix González Mondroño (2014), Els ossos soterrats by Silvestre Vilaplana (2016), Res no és real by David …
The Secret History of Paranoia, Borders and Terrorism in American Postwar Literature and Film explores the historical re-articulations of paranoia around the problems of borders and terrorism. The introduction discusses the first English definition of "paranoia" in 1811—"alienat…
Why, Timothy Melley asks, have paranoia and conspiracy theory become such prominent features of postwar American culture? In Empire of Conspiracy, Melley explores the recent growth of anxieties about thought-control, assassination, political indoctrination, stalking, surveillanc…
Why, Timothy Melley asks, have paranoia and conspiracy theory become such prominent features of postwar American culture? In Empire of Conspiracy, Melley explores the recent growth of anxieties about thought-control, assassination, political indoctrination, stalking, surveillanc…
