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ReviewSocial psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology2014

Advances in understanding and treating persecutory delusions: a review.

Daniel Freeman, Philippa Garety

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Review in Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 136 papers, 9 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Daniel FreemanDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, OX3 7JX, UK, Daniel.Freeman@psych.ox.ac.uk.
Philippa Garety

Funding

Medical Research Council G0902308
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposePersecutory delusions are a central psychotic experience, at the severe end of a paranoia spectrum in the general population. The aim of the review is to provide an introduction to the understanding of persecutory delusions, highlight key putative causal factors that have the potential to be translated into efficacious treatment, and indicate future research directions.

methodsA narrative literature review was undertaken to highlight the main recent areas of empirical study concerning non-clinical and clinical paranoia.

resultsSix main proximal causal factors are identified: a worry thinking style, negative beliefs about the self, interpersonal sensitivity, sleep disturbance, anomalous internal experience, and reasoning biases. Each has plausible mechanistic links to the occurrence of paranoia. These causal factors may be influenced by a number of social circumstances, including adverse events, illicit drug use, and urban environments.

conclusionsThere have been numerous replicated empirical findings leading to a significant advance in the understanding of persecutory delusions, now beginning to be translated into cognitive treatments. The first trials specifically focussed on patients who have persecutory delusions in the context of psychotic diagnoses are occurring. Initial evidence of efficacy is very promising.

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AdultAgedAnxietyCognitive Behavioral TherapyCultureDelusionsFemaleHumansInternal-External ControlMaleMiddle AgedParanoid DisordersPsychotic DisordersRisk FactorsSchizophrenia, ParanoidSeverity of Illness Index

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PMID25005465
PMCPMC4108844

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