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.
Persecutory delusions, the unfounded beliefs that others intend harm to the individual, are a major psychiatric problem. They are a common feature of severe mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, delusional disorder and bipolar disorder, often lead to admission to psychiatric hospital, and are a cause of considerable distress to patients and ...
Here is a practical and thorough volume for any mental health professional who is working with grandiose clients. Using helpful background information and vignettes from clinical contact with their own clients, a number of psychotherapists provide new and enlightening insights into the person who displays an exaggerated sense of self-importance, a ...
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