Persecutory delusions (strong unfounded fears that others intend harm to the person) occur in more than 70% of the patients diagnosed with schizophrenia. This major psychotic experience is a key clinical target, for which substantial improvement in treatment is needed. Our aim is to use advances...
Preliminary results of a recently developed modular treatment for persecutory delusions in psychosis were promising: patients were satisfied with the treatment and believed that it helped [26]. Another challenge in traditional treatments for social functioning is generalizability, as it is difficult for...
Feeling Safe is the most effective psychological treatment for persecutory delusions. But the work does not stop there. The challenge now is to reach the many thousands of people whose lives have disrupted by severe paranoia, and not merely those being treated by our team. We think too that ...
Cognitive behavioural treatment of insomnia in individuals with persistent persecutory delusions: A pilot trial Insomnia is a putative causal factor for persecutory thinking. Recent epidemiological studies show a strong association of insomnia and paranoia. The clini... E Myers,H Startup,D Freeman ...
persecutory delusions) and negative (such as emotional withdrawal and blunted affect) schizophrenic symptoms were dramatically eliminated in 5 out of the 6 ... JN Nestoros,BE Suranyl-Cadotte,RC Spees,... - 《Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry》 被引量: 151发表: 1982年 Neuroleptic-induced...
Persecutory:Someone who has this believes they (or someone close to them) are being mistreated, or that someone is spying on them or planning to harm them. They might make repeated complaints to legal authorities. Bizarre:These delusions involve believing something impossible in our reality, suc...
Persecutory:Someone who has this believes they (or someone close to them) are being mistreated, or that someone is spying on them or planning to harm them. They might make repeated complaints to legal authorities. Bizarre:These delusions involve believing something impossible in our reality, suc...
However, the pimavanserin-treated patients showed significantly greater improvement in some but not all measures of psychosis, including SAPS global measures of hallucinations and delusions, persecutory delusions, and the UPDRS measure of delusions and hallucinations. Pimavanserin showed significantly greater...
For example, individuals with persecutory delusions may consistently interpret emotionally ambiguous information in one unhelpful direction (i.e. interpretation bias). For example, two people laughing together at a bus stop may be taken to mean ‘they are laughing at me/trying to humiliate me’....
You might havepersecutory delusions,in which you think a person or group of people wants to harm you. Or you could havegrandiose delusions, in which you believe you are all-powerful or in a position of authority.Religious delusions,sometimes calledspiritual psychosis, center on spiritual or rel...