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James Charney, "Madness at the Movies: Understanding Mental Illness through Film" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)

New Books in Psychology

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The Paranoid Delusion

Paranoid doesn't necessarily mean that you're having a major illness. It's a word that can have extreme versions or can have mild versions. The classic paranoid delusion is feeling as though people are out to get you and want to hurt you. An extreme version of paranoid thinking is the classic. I've invented an anti gravity machine the FBI is following me because they wanted to take my invention away. And when I go up, up outside, there are invisible helicopters that only I can see that are that are so important. All that's paranoid. Now what's interesting about that is it might even be saying that those Helicopters may actually be protecting you. That's also by definition

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