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Cognitive and Social Processes in Psychosis: Recent Developments

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These two personal accounts contain key aspects of paranoia: the individuals are making judgements about other people; the decision-making is influenced by fear, worry, and unusual ‘feelings’; and danger is anticipated. This is consistent with an emerging body of psychological research that implicates – in the context of the social world – reasoning processes, negative affect, and anomalous internal experiences in the occurrence of delusions. In this chapter the advances in the cognitive and social understanding of psychosis will be illustrated with reference to the clinically important experience of persecutory delusions, where arguably the progress has been most rapid. The initial application of this theoretical knowledge to clinical practice via an interventionist causal model approach will be described.

In general I’m paranoid about almost everything. Every nice compliment or comment I get given I take it as sarcasm, or I think the person will go away and laugh at me behind my back. Or sometimes if I walk over to people and they snigger or jerk a bit, I get worried they’re plotting against me. I get worried about going to the shop, being followed. When I walk past people, I always get the feeling they’re watching my back. Or they will throw something at me.

Ryan

I feel as if people that are close to me are trying to poison me, and every time I go to dinner they are giving me more of the poison and soon it will kill me. I know they wouldn’t do it but the feeling is so strong that I feel as if they are. I even feel dizzy whilst eating the food and thinking of the poison. I can’t be at home on my own as I feel scared that a ghost, an object or a person is going to kill me. I feel as if someone is going to break into my place and stab me. I feel a horrible feeling in my back where I am going to be stabbed, I hear voices telling me I ain’t worth nothing, they tell me people are going to die.

Katherine

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Freeman, D. (2010). Cognitive and Social Processes in Psychosis: Recent Developments. In: Gattaz, W., Busatto, G. (eds) Advances in Schizophrenia Research 2009. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0913-8_15

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