A Paranoid Family in Taiwan

Tseng, Wen-Shing

doi:10.1001/archpsyc.1969.01740190057007

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“…Their social deviance, elitism, and antagonism to convention (see below) also contribute to isolation• Their circular social isolation is a form of perceptual deprivation• Among the rare studies of paranoid groups, Waltzer (1963) and Tseng (1969) described the isolation of paranoid families as crucial in maintaining paranoid delusions among members of the affected families.…”

Section: Insularity and Isolationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Paranoid pseudocommunity beliefs in a sect milieu

Myers

1988

Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol

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Summary.A shared paranoid belief system was identified among members of a sect-like group. The imagined "paranoid pseudocommunity" includes both persecutorial conspiracies and networks extending and supporting the group. Delusional hypotheses are frequently reorganized within this paradigm, as are accompanying verbal styles. A paranoid perceptual and cognitive style is maintained by leader influence, information-processing roles of members, and the dogmatic, insular, elitist, and antagonistic qualities of this encapsulated subculture.Paranoid delusions seldom find adherents beyond a minority of one. Diagnostic classification reflects this fact by identifying no clinical entity broader than a pranoid dyad 1. Occasionally, however, larger groups of a sect of cult-like nature are infused with the paranoid ideation of a dominant member. This study examines such a group, the "League of Geniuses" (pseud.), focusing on the relationship between the belief system and a social system that encourages, orders, and maintains it in a "cognitive subculture". Interviews were conducted with a dozen members and ex-members over a period of a decade, and there was a comprehensive review of documents, speeches, and other communications 2.

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Section: Insularity and Isolationmentioning

confidence: 99%