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Paranoia

A Social Account

LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY, J.Cromby{at}lboro.ac.uk

David J. Harper

UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON, d.harper{at}uel.ac.uk

Both psychology and psychiatry are dominated by individualistic accounts of paranoia (and, indeed, other forms of distress). As a corrective to these, this paper provides a social account of paranoia grounded in a minimal notion of embodied subjectivity constituted from the interpenetration of feelings, perception and discourse. Paranoia is conceptualized as a mode or tendency within embodied subjectivity, co-constituted in the dialectical associations between subjectivity and relational, social and material influences. Relevant psychiatric and psychological literature is briefly reviewed; relational, social structural and material influences upon paranoia are described; and some implications of this account for research and intervention are highlighted.

Key Words: embodiment • neuroscience • psychotherapy • social psychology • Vygotsky

Theory & Psychology, Vol. 19, No. 3, 335-361 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0959354309104158


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