title: Theology and paranoia: the search for meaning.
abstract: This paper describes how a paranoid patient, having feelings of guilt and fear and a messianic grandiosity, may construct a teleology based on cosmic bisexuality, by which meaning may be given to his suffering.
authors.affiliation: School of Humanities, New York Institute of Technology, NY 10023.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Goldwert
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D001727:Bisexuality / Q000523:psychology; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D005239:Fear; D006167:Guilt; D006801:Humans; D010259:Paranoid Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D012069:Religion and Psychology