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Psicologia
Print version ISSN 0874-2049
Abstract
MELO, Sara Sigmaringa. Persecutory delusions: a review of theories and evidence based studies. Psicologia [online]. 2006, vol.20, n.2, pp.187-201. ISSN 0874-2049.
The account for delusional beliefs, particularly persecutory beliefs, has been at the centre of much controversy over the last two decades. The present paper summarizes and integrates the existing literature on this topic and starts by briefly describing the first few theories that explained paranoia, moving later to a more detailed evidence based description of the two most recent accounts for paranoia. These are Trower and Chadwicks theory (1995) and Bentall et al.s (2001) Attribution‑Self‑Representation model. More studies looking further into the dynamics of delusional beliefs are needed to utterly understand both the development and maintenance of paranoia.
Keywords : paranoia; selfesteem; socialcognition; dynamism.