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Learn how to overcome your feelings of paranoia 'This is the
definitive practical guide from the leaders in the field on a
hugely important topic. Written in an engaging, easy-to-understand
style, the book tells how new research on paranoia is revealing how
best to overcome it. The first edition helped many thousands of
sufferers and the second edition promises even more.' Mark
Williams, Emeritus Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of
Oxford, co-author of Mindfulness: Finding Peace in a Frantic World
Do you feel as if others are out to get you? Research shows that
20-30 percent of people in the UK frequently have paranoid or
suspicious thoughts about other people. These feelings can make
life a misery. In this fully revised and expanded new edition, the
authors explain how cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) techniques
can be used to treat this disorder by changing unhelpful patterns
of behaviour and thought. 'The authors of this excellent and timely
book have played a major role in developing our understanding of
how suspicious thoughts arise and, crucially, how we can learn to
cope with them.' Nicholas Tarier, Professor of Clinical Psychology,
Manchester University Overcoming self-help guides use clinically
proven CBT techniques to treat long-standing and disabling
conditions, both psychological and physical. Many guides in the
Overcoming series are recommended by the Department of Health under
the Books on Prescription scheme.
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. This recent
research is presented for the first time as a book. In this
landmark publication, 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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