Paranoia
Subtitle: the psychology of persecutory delusions
By: Daniel Freeman, Philippa A. Garety.
Contributors: Garety, Philippa A.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Maudsley monographs,; no. 45
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Hove, East Sussex; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
Subjects: Paranoia; Delusions; Paranoid Disorders -- psychology; Cognition; Delusions -- psychology; Emotions; Models, Psychological
Description: "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."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Persecutory delusions; title: Emotion and delusion; title: Delusion content and emotional distress; title: Delusions and disconfirmatory evidence; title: Hypervigilance; title: Meta-cognitive processes; title: A cognitive model of persecutory delusions; title: Researching delusions.