The paranoid person: a biopsychosocial perspective.
Paranoia is not a uniquely medical term. Articles on the subject appear in the literature of fields as diverse as psychology, sociology, linguistics, cognitive processing, and computers. Paranoia is also a human response to physical, psychical, interpersonal, and social ills and, as such, is a phenomenon of interest to nursing. The study of paranoia by several disciplines provides nurses with a variety of perspectives from which to understand the experiences of paranoid clients. Paranoia will be presented as a phenomenon that can be viewed from levels ranging from the suborganismic level to the sociocultural. Implications for nursing interventions geared to each level will be discussed.
College of Health Sciences, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529-0286.
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D005190:Family; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010259:Paranoid Disorders / Q000451:nursing / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology*