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Showing 1 to 20 of 83 for “"Paranoia"”.
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Social anxiety and paranoia: A mixed-methods investigation
… and other people. This thesis draws upon the paranoia literature to inform arguments about the role of negative perceptions of others in social anxiety. I propound a novel theoretical model of the core fears underlying social anxiety. I argue that anxiety in social situations can result from …
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Rorschach evidence concerning the relationship between homosexuality and paranoia
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Psychology, 1963
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Paranoia, power and male identity in John Buchan's Literary War
… explores some of the intersections between paranoia, power, and male identity in the first three Hannay novels – The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915), Greenmantle (1916), and Mr. Standfast (1919) – of John Buchan (1875-1940), and the close links between these intersections and the rhetoric and …
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Paranoia and social mistrust in UK and Hong Kong children
Recent work has shown that paranoia - excessive suspiciousness of others - exists on a spectrum of severity in the adult general population. Yet little is known about either the nature of mistrust in children or whether studying paranoia in children could increase our understanding of the aetiology …
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An experimental investigation using Cognitive Bias Modification for paranoid attributions in a non-clinical sample: Effects upon interpretation bias, emotions, and paranoia following a stressful paranoia induction.
… reactions to a stressor designed to induce paranoia. Method: Non-clinical participants were randomly assigned to positive CBM-I training (n = 18), or a neutral control CBM-I (n = 17). Participants were then subject to a stressful paranoia induction: seeing a live video of themselves whilst …
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Networks of paranoia: narratives of crime and detection in 21st century Latin America
… crime fiction genre, and an affective state of paranoia. This project argues for a new understanding of crime fiction in the region, one that is not focused on urban life or a national literary history, but is grounded instead on the “networks” that organize contemporary everyday life. …
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Social paranoia and absurdist fiction in Cold War America and Soviet Russia: a comparative study
This thesis explores the theme of social paranoia as depicted in the Absurdist fiction of Cold War America and Soviet Russia. The central hypothesis informing this research maintains that, despite the ideology of moral and cultural “Otherness” constructed and reinforced by both nations throughout …
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Headphone Theatre (performances & experiences): a practitioner’s manipulation of proximity, aural attention and the resulting effect of paranoia.
… This study hypothesises around the role that paranoia plays within ‘headphone theatre’ and exploring how it operates in response to the manipulation of a participants’ aural attention and proximity. I will be exploring and providing analysis of my own practical work; investigating a variety of …
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The invincible defeat of a violent innocent : entertaining paradox and paranoia in the therapy of a borderline patient
… through the patient's and the therapist's paranoia. The experience of the sense of aliveness and deadness in the therapeutic hour, and the function that this interactive space have played in pointing me to my patient's internal object world and her object relations are explored in terms of …
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Plagues, paranoia, and Cold War blowback: The continuing national security risk of the Soviet-United States biological arms race
The Cold War biological arms race is a site of contention within the geopolitical landscape under the theories of containment and mutually assured destruction. Rapid proliferation of biological weapons creates instability within the construction of biosecurity and is further complicated by the …
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The role of shame, schemas, cognitions, paranoia and memories in social anxiety following psychosis: a comparison with typical social anxiety
… shame, socially anxious cognitions, schemas and paranoia. A semi-structured interview elicited images and memories experienced in social situations. A self-report measure compared the groups in relation to trauma symptoms associated with reported memories. Results. Participants in the SAp group …
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Investigating the efficacy of cognitive bias modification for interpretation and the Maudsley Review Training Programme on social anxiety and reasoning biases in individuals with persecutory delusions: a single case series
… hypothesised that both packages would reduce paranoia. A single case series design with twelve participants from Early Intervention and Recovery services in Norfolk was used. Measures of social anxiety, paranoia and reasoning biases were taken during baseline, package and one-month follow up. …
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Psychosocial pathways between adversity and psychosis
… to the development of psychosis, including paranoia and hearing voices. These adverse experiences include childhood trauma (such as physical, emotional and sexual abuse) as well as experiences such as neglect, social inequality and poverty. One adverse experience that has received less …
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Reimagining Subject-Other Relations: Embracing the other Without and Within
… as well as the “epidemic nature of contemporary paranoia” as represented in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, E.L. Doctorow’s The Book of Daniel, and Dione Brand’s Inventory (O’Donnell vii). While the literary and generic structures, aesthetic approaches, and historical contexts for the texts …
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A cross-sectional examination of candidate psychological factors associated with Post-Psychotic PTSD & Research Portfolio
… intolerance of uncertainty, beliefs about paranoia and interpretations about hallucinatory voices were investigated. Links with psychiatric symptoms were also assessed. Results: The prevalence rate of PP-PTSD was 37%. PP-PTSD caseness was associated with being fearful about psychosis …
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