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paranoia
paranoia , in psychology, a term denoting persistent, unalterable, systematized, logically reasoned delusions , or false beliefs, usually of persecution or grandeur. In the former case the paranoiac creates a complex delusional system that purports to show that people want to hurt him; in the latte... Read more
Richard Hofstadter
Richard Hofstadter , 1916-70, American historian, b. Buffalo, N.Y. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia in 1942 and began teaching there in 1946, becoming full professor in 1952 and De Witt Clinton professor of American history in 1959. One of the most brilliant of 20th-century American historians, h... Read more
John Forbes Nash, Jr.
John Forbes Nash, Jr. 1928-, American mathematician, b. Bluefield, W.Va., grad. Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie-Mellon Univ., B.A. and M.A. 1948), Ph.D. Princeton 1950. During a five-year period, beginning with his doctoral thesis in 1949, he established the mathematical principles o... Read more
Michael Joseph Jackson
Michael Joseph Jackson 1958-, American performer, b. Gary, Ind. Jackson is known as a superb dancer and pop singer, often conveying an androgynous image and an ambiguous sexuality, but offstage he has become known for various alleged eccentricities, for his sharp business acumen, and for a physical... Read more
hallucinogenic drug
hallucinogenic drug , any of a group of substances that alter consciousness; also called psychotomimetic (i.e., mimicking psychosis ), mind-expanding, or psychedelic drug. The group includes mescaline, or peyote , which comes from the cactus Lophophora williamsii ; psilocin and psilocybin, from t... Read more
schizophrenia
schizophrenia , group of severe mental disorders characterized by reality distortions resulting in unusual thought patterns and behaviors. Because there is often little or no logical relationship between the thoughts and feelings of a person with schizophrenia, the disorder has often been called "... Read more
cloning
cloning is the generation of genetically identical organisms: each group of such organisms is a clone. Ever since Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, cloning and clones have been the subject both of science fiction and of serious public concern over their possible biotechnological applications. Befor... Read more
Henry VIII
Henry VIII 1491-1547, king of England (1509-47), second son and successor of Henry VII . Early Life In his youth he was educated in the new learning of the Renaissance and developed great skill in music and sports. He was created prince of Wales in 1503, following the death of his elder ... Read more

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Addiction and Habituation
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Public Health ...killer of people worldwide. Drugs of abuse are also associated with the production of psychotic symptoms (e.g., paranoid ideation) and with injuries due to accidents and violence. Approximately 50 percent of automobile fatalities involve alcohol...

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Dementia
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...The second definition concerns altered states in memory and ideation following injury to the brain. The word dementia , which first...three forms of dementia praecox: hebephrenic, catatonic, and paranoid. Sigmund Freud approved of Kraepelin's approach but he criticized...

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Relationships Between Mobbing at Work and MMPI-2 Personality Profile, Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms, and Suicidal Ideation and Behavior
Magazine article from: Violence and Victims; 1/1/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...elevations of Scales 1, 2, and 3 and a paranoid component as indicated by elevation of...exposure to mobbing predicted suicidal ideation and behavior, with depression only partially...workplace bullying; MMPI-2; suicidal ideation In the past 10 to 15 years, a new psychosocial...
This is my brain on Chantix: I'd heard it was the most effective stop-smoking drug yet. So I took it. Then those reports of suicidal ideation began washing in.
Magazine article from: New York; 2/18/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...it didn't entirely go away come morning. As I showered, shaved, and scrambled into clothes, I tried to shake a weird, paranoid sense that I'd just been psychically raped by a household appliance. ON JANUARY 25, Pfizer was able to share some good...
Cognitive Group Therapy for Paranoid Schizophrenics: Applying Cognitive Dissonance
Magazine article from: Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy; 1/1/1998; ; 700+ words ; Psychotherapy with paranoid schizophrenics is a hard...not aimed at changing the paranoid mode of thinking. Although...therapy of six schizophrenic paranoids treated by modified cognitive...six age- and sex-matched paranoid schizophrenics was treated...change psychotic paranoid ...
Cochlear implantation in severe traumatic brain injury and paranoid schizophrenia: two case studies.
Magazine article from: Ear, Nose and Throat Journal; 8/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...severe brain injury, and the other had paranoid schizophrenia. Nevertheless, both patients...traumatic brain injury, and the other had paranoid schizophrenia that was relatively well...complications included depression with suicidal ideation (including one attempted suicide...
New behavior research from Wayne State University described.(Report)
Newspaper article from: Biotech Week; 11/4/2009; 668 words ; ...treatment approach to reduce anger and paranoid ideation on men (n = 32) in treatment...problems and compares levels of paranoid ideation with a sample of men...groups differences on anger and paranoid ideation." "At pretest, the...
An Examination of DSM-IV Borderline Personality Disorder Symptoms and Risk for Death by Suicide: A Psychological Autopsy Study
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of Psychiatry; 2/1/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...include affective instability and paranoid ideation-dissociative symptoms. The negative association between paranoid ideation-dissociative symptoms...BPD. * Affective instability and paranoid ideation-dissociative symptoms...
Gastric banding improves mental health as well as physical health.
Newspaper article from: Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week; 11/23/2002; 667 words ; ...depression (p<0.001), paranoid ideation (p<0.001), and interpersonal...obsessive-compulsive behavior, paranoid ideation, and interpersonal sensitivity...especially in the areas of depression, paranoid ideation, and interpersonal sensitivity...
Study results from King's College London, Department of Psychology broaden understanding of schizophrenia.
Newspaper article from: Mental Health Weekly Digest; 8/25/2008; 700+ words ; ...in 'Jumping to conclusions and paranoid ideation in the general population,' new...reasoning task and assessments of paranoid ideation, intellectual functioning...higher levels of conviction in paranoid thoughts and the occurrence of...
Misidentification of the Self in a Patient with a Psychotic Disorder and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Magazine article from: The Israel Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences; 4/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...patient clinic with the chief complaint of frequent paranoid ideations. According to Mr. C., he felt that others, especially...Prior to his jail experience, he had experienced paranoid delusional thinking but no misidentification delusions...
A fall from grace.(In an earlier time, Jana Schneider was an award-winning Broadway actress who, in an extraordinary career change, became a daring war photographer. But then she disappeared. When she turned up again late last year, she looked like just another bag lady)(Biography)
Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report; 5/17/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...officers. Whether they feared she might freeze to death or because, as her doctors wrote later, she exhibited "paranoid ideations," Schneider was taken to Bellevue Hospital Center in lower Manhattan for psychiatric evaluation. Bellevue is...