Persecutory Delusions: Assessment, Theory, and Treatment
Persecutory Delusions: Assessment, Theory, and Treatment
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Abstract
Persecutory delusions, the unfounded beliefs that others intend harm to the individual, are a major psychiatric problem. They are a common feature of severe mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, delusional disorder and bipolar disorder, often lead to admission to psychiatric hospital, and are a cause of considerable distress to patients and carers. However, increasingly it is recognised that persecutory delusions reflect the severe end of a spectrum of paranoia, which also encompasses beliefs and worries about threats from others that are common in the general population. In the last ten years an increasing number of researchers and clinicians have focussed on explaining paranoid experience in both clinical and non-clinical populations, with fascinating results. In this title, the three major authorities in the field bring together the current knowledge about the assessment, understanding, and treatment of persecutory delusions. Leading experts in cognitive psychology, neuropsychology, psychiatry, social psychiatry, neuroimaging, and neuroscience explain their perspectives on paranoia. Pharmacological, cognitive, and family interventions are comprehensively reviewed, and personal accounts of paranoia are included.
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Front Matter
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Part 1 A personal account
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Part 2 Assessment, epidemiology, and prognosis
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The assessment of persecutory ideation
Daniel Freeman
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Epidemiology and social factors: findings from the Netherlands Mental Health Survey and Incidence Study (NEMESIS)
Bart P. F. Rutten and others
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Prognosis of persecutory delusions in schizophrenia: a 20-year longitudinal study
Martin Harrow and others
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Violence and persecutory delusions
Jayne L. Taylor
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Aspects of persecutory delusions in the setting of delusional disorder
Alistair Munro
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The assessment of persecutory ideation
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Part 3 Psychological processes
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The puzzle of paranoia
Daniel Freeman and others
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The role of self-esteem in paranoid delusions: the psychology, neurophysiology, and development of persecutory beliefs
Richard P. Bentall and others
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Social cognition in paranoia
Dennis R. Combs andDavid L. Penn
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Persecutory delusions and theory of mind: longstanding debates and emerging issues
Rhiannon Corcoran andSuzanne Kaiser
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The cognitive neuropsychological understanding of persecutory delusions
Robyn Langdon and others
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The puzzle of paranoia
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Part 4 Biological processes
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Part 5 Treatment: overviews
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Pharmacological management of persecutory delusions
Paul Bebbington and others
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Research evidence of the effectiveness of cognitive behavioural therapy for persecutory delusions: more work is needed
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Family intervention in psychosis: working with persecutory delusions
Juliana Onwumere and others
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Pharmacological management of persecutory delusions
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Part 6 Therapy examples
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Coping with paranoia: a first-person account developed during cognitive behavioural therapy for psychosis
Karl Murphy andBen Smith
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Cognitive therapy for suspiciousness and paranoia in individuals at high risk of developing psychosis
Sophie K. Parker and others
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Cognitive behavioural therapy for persecutory delusions: three case examples
David Kingdon and others
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Person-based cognitive therapy for paranoia: the challenges of ‘poor me’
Paul Chadwick andPeter Trower
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Coping with paranoia: a first-person account developed during cognitive behavioural therapy for psychosis
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