Paranoia is an unfounded or exaggerated distrust of others, sometimes reaching delusional proportions. Paranoid individuals constantly suspect the motives of those around them, and believe that certain individuals, or people in general, are "out to get...

A clinical construct referring to a psychological state characterized by excessive self-reference. In day-to-day use the term is increasingly restricted in meaning to the harbouring of persecutory ideas or DELUSION, but technically may include any...

Paranoia is a disturbed thought process characterized by excessive anxiety or fear, often to the point of irrationality and delusion. Paranoid thinking typically includes persecutory beliefs concerning a perceived threat. In the original Greek,...

Paranoia Freud Museum London January 11 to March 11 Being singled out to review an exhibition called 'Paranoia' at the Freud Museum might make you feel a little anxious. It is almost like being asked to get some therapy by visiting the...

Losing sleep? Sweating about what your competitors are up to behind your back? It may not feel good. But it's leading. Leaders don't sleep well. They wake up in the night with a start, imagining that competitors are stealing their best ideas, recruiting...

Having chided Steve Minarik for a ridiculous attack on the Drum Major Institute, I can't avoid mocking Drum Major's response as well. Andrea Batista Schlesinger, who (not Freddy Ferrer) actually runs Drum Major, posted her response to Minarik on the Hollywood liberal organ Huffington Post,...

Even if the city is installing 500 new cameras, the NYPD doesn't have the ability to constantly monitor the surveillance footage. So, how useful is it? It's all about deterrence--i.e., instilling a fear of Big Brother. (The New York Times) In the same vein,...

Paranoia is explained in 4 different paragraph styles: Expository, Descriptive, Persuasive and Narrative.