Metacognitive Interpersonal Therapy for Treating Persecutory Delusions in Schizophrenia

Running Head : Interpersonal beliefs in persecutory delusions

3 The purpose of the current study was to examine the way individuals with persecutory 4 delusions construe the self, others and their main persecutor with reference to the constructs 5 of malevolence and omnipotence, and examine the extent to which these interpersonal beliefs 6 link to distress, self-esteem and delusion conviction. Repertory grid methodology was used 7 to explore interpersonal...

Cognitive and Emotional Processes in Persecutory Delusions

Attributional style in schizophrenia: an investigation in outpatients with and without persecutory delusions.

The attributional style of outpatients with schizophrenia with and without persecutory delusions was investigated. Thirty individuals with schizophrenia were divided into persecutory-deluded and non-persecutory-deluded groups based on a score of 5 or higher on the suspiciousness item from the Expanded Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS-E). The two resulting groups, and a nonclinical control g...

Cognitive neuropsychiatric models of persecutory delusions.

OBJECTIVE The major cognitive theories of persecutory delusion formation and maintenance are critically examined in this article. METHOD The authors present a comprehensive review of the literature, citing results of relevant functional neuroimaging and neural network studies. RESULTS People with persecutory delusions selectively attend to threatening information, jump to conclusions on the...

The Cognitive Model of Stress in Genesis of Persecutory Delusions in Schizophrenia

There are studies showing that in schizophrenia, stress factors could trigger or exacerbate psychotic symptoms. We assumed that stress will increase the level of worry to those who initially had low scores on PSWQ scale, with major impact on persecutory delusion, as well as affecting cognitive performance. Between January 2011 and December 2011, 120 patients with schizophrenia wanted to partici...