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[T]his book is an important and useful work. It may be particularly beneficial to laypersons seeking to understand paranoid behavior and learn more about potential causes and treatments. It will also be helpful for clinicians who are relatively new to working with paranoid individuals....[t]his book is a valuable guide to several aspects of paranoia, and will likely be helpful to many clinicians sufferers, and family members. -
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This book offers a method for understanding, coping with, and treating this widespread and neglected condition.In this insightful book, the author vividly takes the reader inside the minds of people who are paranoid, from experiencing delusions of persecution ranging from thinking others are 'out to get' them to falsely believing they have physical illness. The author also explains other facets of the Paranoid Personality, including suspiciousness, hypersensitivity, extreme vigilance, simmering anger, and a tendency to blame others for and absolve oneself of almost everything. How does such paranoia affect one's life? Whether one is a paranoiac wanting to recover from the emotional disorder, or a person looking for the best way to deal with a paranoid husband, wife, friend, boss, or acquaintance, this book offers understanding and guidance.Paranoid individuals are not invariably social misfits. They are found in all walks of life and in all professions, suffering from this disorder that distorts behaviour and affects those with whom they come in contact, often in devastating ways. Politicians who write attack ads, spouses who beat or kill their partners, people in road or supermarket rage incidents are all among the possibly paranoid, as are students who perpetrate violence at their schools and fired employees who wreak violence at their former workplaces. Recognizing and treating paranoid behaviours can prevent or reduce antisocial activity and violence against individuals and society.
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A paranoid individual's characteristic problems with appearance, speech, thought, behavior, mood, insight, judgment, and intelligence when taken together trace a recognizable pattern called the mental status. Read the first page
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I have been suffering from paranoid and suspicious thoughts for a few years now. The first time was brought about by a huge amount of stress in my life including going bankrupt. Since then when I suffer a large amount of stress (which lets be honest we all do from time to time while trying to achieve more) I get paranoia attacks which can last for weeks if not months.
As I'm sure you will know sometimes the paranoid thoughts are all consuming and prevent you from carrying out normal everyday duties and responsibilities. This was incorrectly diagnosed as depression by my GP and treated with anti depressants which actually made me more agitated and heightened the feelings of the paranoia. After read this book I stopped taking the pills and having tried to implement the strategies I am coping much better.
I'm not saying this book is a quick fix but will really help you understand why you get the thoughts and ways in which you can manage them. Really helped me and I would highly recommend to anyone who suffers with paranoia.
As I'm sure you will know sometimes the paranoid thoughts are all consuming and prevent you from carrying out normal everyday duties and responsibilities. This was incorrectly diagnosed as depression by my GP and treated with anti depressants which actually made me more agitated and heightened the feelings of the paranoia. After read this book I stopped taking the pills and having tried to implement the strategies I am coping much better.
I'm not saying this book is a quick fix but will really help you understand why you get the thoughts and ways in which you can manage them. Really helped me and I would highly recommend to anyone who suffers with paranoia.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I bought this book in the hope that it would offer some help in everyday dealings with a family member suffering grandiose delusions. It focuses mainly on those people who are aware of their persecutory delusions and are willing to seek assistance, so in these cases as an adjunct to medical and psychotherapy it could be useful.
Unfortunately for those of us with psychotic friends/family who refuse to accept that they have a disorder, this book offers no respite or help.
The coping mechanisms that Kantor suggests are commonsense and the things he advises to avoid are quite obvious as well. He is not always easy to understand as the style is sometimes stilted and generally lacks fluency.
In conclusion, as a self-help guide for sufferers and their families maybe, but no help for more severe cases.
Unfortunately for those of us with psychotic friends/family who refuse to accept that they have a disorder, this book offers no respite or help.
The coping mechanisms that Kantor suggests are commonsense and the things he advises to avoid are quite obvious as well. He is not always easy to understand as the style is sometimes stilted and generally lacks fluency.
In conclusion, as a self-help guide for sufferers and their families maybe, but no help for more severe cases.
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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful
When you love someone with paranoia
20 Feb 2007
Format:Hardcover
When I first opened this book, I felt that it was not appropriate for my situation. It seemed to address the disorder as it manifests most severely--with psychosis and extreme delusions. I passed the book on to the paranoid individual in my life and he has been very impressed with Dr. Kantor's work. The chapters near the end about how to deal with paranoid people, how to understand one's own thinking (for the paranoid person) and his descrpitions of how paranoid people may be in relationships and the prognosis for these were particularly useful. Overall, this book has been a big part of helping a man see how paranoia has affected his life and how he can lessen its impact. It has been life-changing. It is not only extremely well written and researched, it is also just about the only text you will find on the subject which can be applied to people with PPD, rather than the more severe manifestations.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Finally a book on paranoia for the layperson
18 Aug 2007
Format:Hardcover
This clearly written insightful book on a generally overlooked topic helped me understand myself and my relatives. If you think you may be paranoid or have a relative who suffers from paranoia this book will speak to in your language and fill you in on what is going on. Don't believe the review about its being too complicated; it is straighforward and to the point. I really found it useful.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
The best book ever on paranoia
7 Oct 2007
Format:Hardcover
This book helped me immeasurably to understand Paranoia and to deal with a person in my life who has suffered from paranoia for years, someone I never fully understood and had, until now, no idea how to manage. I also understood more about how paranoia determines the thoughts and actions of some in high places, including certain world leaders. Highly recommended as a fast, fascinating read, and as a book that offers laypersons a practical approach for coping with the paranoid individuals in their lives and even with their own paranoia.
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