Alibris: Paranoia

AUDIOBOOKS | NEW BOOKS OF NOTE | BARGAIN BOOKS | Find a seller

» advanced search

Give affordable treasures: Find memorable gifts

Get your gifts by December 24: Learn how

browse BOOKS

Page 1 of 3

sort by

1	Life Without Lawyers: Liberating Americans from Too Much Law more books like this by Philip K Howard add to wishlist Americans are losing the freedom to make sense of daily choicesa??teachers cana??t maintain order in the classroom, managers are trained to avoid candour, schools ban the game of tag and companies plaster inane warnings on everything: a??Remove Baby Before Folding Strollera??. Philip K. Howarda??s urgent and elegant argument is full of examples, ... see all copies from $11.71! new only from $14.32! \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Paranoia Switch: How Terror Rewires Our Brains and Reshapes Our Behavior--And How We Can Reclaim Our Courage more books like this by Martha Stout add to wishlist Bestselling author Stout offers a groundbreaking clinical and practical examination of how terror and fear politics affect the biology of the brain. She assures readers that they can interrupt the cycle of trauma and look forward to a future free of fear only by understanding their own paranoia. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
3	Whispers: The Voices of Paranoia more books like this by Ronald K. Siegel add to wishlist Combining the insights of a gifted research scientist with vivid tales that are usually the realm of the novelist, Dr. Siegel lets his readers experience the suspicion, terror, and rage that possess the mind of the paranoid. Demonstrates that under the right conditions, anyone can be driven into a state of dementia. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.85! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Kiss Me, Judas: 1a Novel more books like this by Will Christopher Baer add to wishlist A stylish debut novel of modern noir, "Kiss Me, Judas" is a hypnotic tale of paranoia, betrayal, and doomed love for fans of "L.A. Confidential" and "Pulp Fiction". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.35! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Autonomy and Rigid Character more books like this by David Shapiro add to wishlist Beginning with a discussion of the problem of autonomy in dynamic psychiatry and a review of its development from infancy to adolescence, the author of Neurotic Styles explores, with numerous clinical examples, the distortion of the development of autonomy in obsessive-compulsive conditions, in sadism and masochism, and, finally, in paranoia. see all copies from $3.58! new only from $18.95! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Honey and the Hemlock: Democracy and Paranoia in Ancient Athens and Modern America more books like this by Eli Sagan add to wishlist This text focuses on the world's first democratic society, Athens, and mounts an argument that Athens and the modern American republic, although separated by more than 2000 years, share the same fundamental moral and psychological dilemmas. Eli Sagan maintains that Athens was a paradoxical society. It displayed an unprecedented psychological ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Faces of the Enemy: Reflections of the Hostile Imagination more books like this by Sam Keen add to wishlist This book shows how ordinary and seemingly decent people can be stirred to hate and even to kill their neighbours, using the twisted caricatures of propaganda posters, biased cartoons, and distorted images served up in print and on screen. In pictures and in text, noted philosopher and Jungian Sam Keen delves beneath legitimate grievances and ... see all copies from $1.99! first editions
8	Schreber Case more books like this by Sigmund Freud, Andrew Webber (Translator), Colin McCabe (Introduction by) add to wishlist Freud rarely treated psychotic patients or psychoanalyzed people just from their writings, but he had a powerful and imaginative understanding of their condition-revealed, most notably, in this analysis of a remarkable memoir. In 1903, Judge Daniel Schreber, a highly intelligent and cultured man, produced a vivid account of his nervous illness ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.79! \| SVS
9	Paranoia and Modernity: Cervantes to Rousseau more books like this by John Farrell add to wishlist see all copies from $18.50! new only from $19.71! \| first editions
10	Memoirs of My Nervous Illness more books like this by Daniel Paul Schreber add to wishlist In 1884, the distinguished German jurist Daniel Paul Schreber suffered the first of a series of mental collapses that would afflict him for the rest of his life. In his madness, the world was revealed to him as an enormous architecture of nerves, dominated by a predatory God. It became clear to Schreber that his personal crisis was implicated in ... see all copies from $7.98! new only from $10.13! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11	Freud's Paranoid Quest: Psychoanalysis and Modern Suspicion more books like this by John Farrell add to wishlist John Farrell sheds light on a particular genealogy of thinkers and authors--including Cervantes, Bacon, Hobbes, La Rochefoucauld, Locke, Swift, Voltaire, Rousseau, Marx, Dostoevsky, and Nietzsche--who demonstrate a pernicious attitude of paranoid suspicion, projecting their delusional mental states on the external world. These precursors, he ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	The tenant more books like this by Roland Topor add to wishlist The Tenant chronicles a harrowing, fascinating descent into madness as the pathologi-cally alienated Trelkovsky is subsumed into Simone Choule, an enigmatic suicide whose presence saturates his new apartment. More than a tale of possession, the novel probes disturbing depths of guilt, paranoia, and sexual obsession with an unsparing detachment. see all copies from $5.74! new only from $7.81! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	If You Could See Me Now more books like this by Peter Straub add to wishlist Returning to the small town where he spent the summers as boy, scholar Miles Teagarden hopes to accomplish two things: work on his book and fulfill a childhood promise to his cousin (they agreed to meet after 20 years). Shortly after his arrival in town, though, things begin to derail as a number of young girls are raped and murdered and Miles ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	Yellow more books like this by Janni Visman add to wishlist In her spotless top floor flat Stella has created the ultimate cocoon. Her life is as perfectly ordered as the phials in her treatment room, where her patients have come to depend on her healing hands, as strictly inventoried as the contents of her rucksack, always ready by the door in case she needs to make a quick getaway. But she never ventures ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Political Paranoia: The Psychopolitics of Hatred more books like this by Professor Robert S Robins, Jerrold M Post add to wishlist Paranoia is not an obscure mental state afflicting some individuals but a widespread condition of modern societies, say the authors of this book. Robert S. Robins and Jerrold M. Post, M.D., document and interpret the malign power of paranoia in a variety of contexts - in political movements like McCarthyism, in organizations like the John Birch ... see all copies from $9.85! new only from $52.56! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Psychotherapy & the Paranoid P more books like this by W. W. Meissner add to wishlist Demonstrates the workings of the paranoid process and therapeutic approaches to it for a wide variety of clinical syndromes, particularly the psychoses, borderline states and narcissistic disorders. Meissner also discusses clinical problems concerning adolescence, ageing, suicide and addiction. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $25.95! \| first editions
17 view cover	The Paranoid's Pocket Guide: Hundreds of Things You Never Knew You Had to Worry about more books like this by Cameron Tuttle add to wishlist A book for those who know that everything in life is out to get them. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	The Paranoia of Everyday Life: Escaping the Enemy Within more books like this by Gerald Alper, M.S. add to wishlist In this insightful exploration of the personal, social, and cultural triggers that give rise to paranoid reactions in our everyday lives, psychotherapist Gerald Alper helps readers to recognise a potentially debilitating problem that is unfortunately all too common in our stress-filled society. Through a series of telling vignettes culled from the ... see all copies from $3.14! new only from $3.59! \| first editions
19 view cover	Buzzing more books like this by Jim Knipfel add to wishlist Memoirist Jim Knipfel's first novel is about a journalist named Roscoe Baragon who reports on New York City's nuts and eccentrics. When the crazy events he covers start making a weird kind of sense to him, he begins to wonder if life is even stranger than he thought it was. According to an interview in Publishers Weekly, Knipfel admits that he ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.39! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	The Andromeda Strain/The Terminal Man more books like this by Michael Crichton add to wishlist #1 "New York Times" bestselling author Michael Crichton has been called "one of the great storytellers of our age,"* a master at seamlessly blending cutting-edge science and technology with spellbinding adventure. Now two of his most electrifying thrillers have been combined in one volume, to astonish and terrify a new generation of readers with ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
21 view cover	The Schreber Case: Psychoanalytic Profile of a Paranoid Personality more books like this by William G. Niederland add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $48.64! \| signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	Conspiracy Culture: From the Kennedy Assassination to The X-Files more books like this by Peter Knight add to wishlist Knight provides an engaging and cogent analysis of the development of conspiracy culture, from the 1960s' countercultural suspicions about the authorities to the 1990s, where a paranoid attitude is both routine and ironic. see all copies from $7.10! new only from $10.00! \| first editions
23 view cover	Delusional Disorder: Paranoia and Related Illnesses more books like this by Alistair Munro add to wishlist Delusional disorder, once termed paranoia, was an important diagnosis in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and only in 1987 was it reintroduced into modern psychiatric diagnosis after being subsumed with schizophrenia. This book provides a comprehensive review of delusional disorder for psychiatrists and other clinicians. ... see all copies from $44.63! new only from $44.63! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Paranoia: The Twenty-First Century Fear more books like this by Daniel Freeman, Jason Freeman add to wishlist Are we living in a uniquely paranoid age? Catalysed by the threat of terrorism, fears about others have reached a new intensity. The roll call of apparent dangers seems to increase by the day: muggers, child abductors, drug dealers, hoodied teenagers. Crime has apparently reached such high levels that CCTV cameras are required in every town centre ... see all copies from $6.75! new only from $10.45! \| SVS
25 view cover	Conspiracy Nation: The Politics of Paranoia in Postwar America more books like this by Peter Knight (Editor) add to wishlist Placing conspiracy thinking at the centre of American history, and challenging the knee-jerk dismissal of conspiratorial thought as deluded and sometimes dangerous, "Conspiracy Nation" provides a wide-ranging survey of conspiracy theories in contemporary America. In the 19th century, inflammatory rhetoric about slave revolts, the well-publicized ... see all copies from $17.95! new only from $17.95! \| first editions \| SVS

Page 1 of 3: 1 2 3 Next>

Browse authors

Browse subjects

Our Money-Back Guarantee

We guarantee every item's condition, as described on Alibris. If you are not satisfied that an item is as described, return your purchase for a refund.

	Julia by Peter Straub see all from $1.99! new only from $9.95!
	Kiss Me, Judas by Will Christopher Baer see all from $1.99! new only from $4.78!
	My Own Private Germany: Daniel Paul Schreber's Secret History of Modernity by Eric L Santner see all from $7.25! new only from $20.00!
	Case Studies in Abnormal Psychology by Dr. Thomas F Oltmanns, John C Neale, Gerald Davison see all from $1.99! new only from $15.99!
	Quitting the Nairobi Trio: A Memoir by Jim Knipfel see all from $1.99! new only from $12.63!
	Bad Girls Gde Getting What You Want by Cameron Tuttle, Susannah Bettag (Illustrator) see all from $1.99! new only from $1.99!