But the third, the biggie, is that the psychopathology that leads to murder is that the killer often feels what we call persecutory distress obsessional paranoia, which is the belief that the victim is threatening their well-being in some way and that the only way they can restore their psychic equilibrium is to wipe out the victim. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Maybe they are really the Puritans of our age, a kind of persecutory cult of moral perfectionism? ❋ Unknown (2009)
Reality-based persecutory fantasies: Much of Loughner's paranoia about government control, etc. is likely delusional, but there is one area where his persecutory beliefs are grounded in reality. ❋ M.D. Mark Goulston (2011)
For example, paranoid schizophrenia is typified by exaggerated suspicions of others and fear of persecutory schemes. ❋ Patrick Cockburn (2011)
"Studying the cultural influences on people's delusions or persecutory thinking, and looking at different aspects of culture and how they effect people's behavior, is a legitmate area of inquiry," Dr. Swartz said. ❋ Greg Sargent (2011)
The near-impossibility of arguing people out of political, social and religious beliefs is the same phenomenon as the impossibility of arguing deluded patients out of their false persecutory or jealous beliefs.www. hedweb.com/bgcharlton/delusions. html ❋ Unknown (2009)
Dr Freeman believes that the research points to a potential treatment for helping to reduce the risk of developing persecutory thoughts. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The halting of their advance was instrumental, he writes, in creating 'an economically retarded, balkanized, and fratricidal Europe that ... made virtues out of hereditary aristocracy, persecutory religious intolerance, cultural particularism, and perpetual war.' ❋ Unknown (2008)
Al Andalus became the Iberian Caliphate [more properly the Caliphate of Cordoba], and according to David Levering Lewis, an American historian of medieval times, the Islamic civilization in Europe represented a profoundly superior one to the “economically retarded, balkanized, and fratricidal Europe that made virtues out of hereditary aristocracy, persecutory religious intolerance, cultural particularism, and perpetual war.” ❋ Unknown (2008)
The bad breast is the absent breast — making its presence all too much felt in the unconscious phantasy and persecutory hunger-pangs that are impossible for the infant to distinguish. ❋ Unknown (2008)
But either way, the country is drowning in persecutory theories. ❋ Claire Berlinski (2010)
Suffers from persecutory (paranoid) delusions as he or she believes that they feel the same about him or her and are likely to act similarly. ❋ Unknown (2009)