Book contents
- Back to Life, Back to Normality
- Back to Life, Back to Normality
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- About the authors
- Introduction
- 1 Where do Ibegin? (…or so many problems, so little time!)
- 2 What is normal?
- 3 Understandingparanoia and unusual beliefs
- 4 Voices
- 5 Overcomingnegative symptoms
- 6 Tablets and injections
- 7 Why me? Why now? Understandingvulnerability from a cognitive perspective
- 8 Helpingcarers help themselves using a cognitive approach
- 9 Staying well andmanaging setbacks
- Subject Index
3 - Understandingparanoia and unusual beliefs
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Back to Life, Back to Normality
- Back to Life, Back to Normality
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- About the authors
- Introduction
- 1 Where do Ibegin? (…or so many problems, so little time!)
- 2 What is normal?
- 3 Understandingparanoia and unusual beliefs
- 4 Voices
- 5 Overcomingnegative symptoms
- 6 Tablets and injections
- 7 Why me? Why now? Understandingvulnerability from a cognitive perspective
- 8 Helpingcarers help themselves using a cognitive approach
- 9 Staying well andmanaging setbacks
- Subject Index
Summary
This chapter aims to build on the previous chapters by giving a fuller review of paranoia and other delusions. Cognitive behavioral therapy techniques to better understand paranoia are described along with homework exercises to reduce the distress and isolation suffered by the person with excessive paranoia.
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- Back to Life, Back to NormalityCognitive Therapy, Recovery and Psychosis, pp. 35 - 60Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009
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