Patients with Paranoia: Psychotic and Nonpsychotic Paranoid Psychologies and their Clinical Implications – Presented by Nancy McWilliams, PhD, ABPP and Michael Garrett, MD [Seminar]
FOUR POINTS by Sheraton San Rafael 1010 Northgate Dr, San Rafael, CA, United StatesNARRATIVE Although DSM criteria for diagnosing paranoia involve externally observable traits, the speakers construe it as an intrapsychic process of disavowal and projection, often related to trauma and inadequate psychological separation from caregivers. Although most visible in psychosis, nonpsychotic paranoid states of mind are common. Dr. McWilliams will review scholarly literature and implications for treatment of nonpsychotic paranoia.…