How Paranoid Ideation Destroys Intimacy, Relationships (Withholding, Withdrawal, Avoidance)

Video Presentation in 4th International Conference on Psychology and Mental Health, Bangkok, November 14-15, 2024

Paranoid ideation is combination anxiety and delusion.

Attribution error

Referential ideation

Primitive defenses such as projection and splitting are conducive to paranoia and conspiracism

Focus on winning and hierarchy suffused with negative affects (fury, envy, hate).

Paranoid ideation has two components:

1. Self-punitive (“I am a bad person, I did something wrong, I deserve to be punished”); and
2. ⁠Grandiosity (“I am so important that I have become the potential or actual victim of malign intentions and malevolent conspiracies”).

Deprivation intentional and is the outcome of …
Withholding could be either aggressive or aversive
Withdrawal could be either aversive or aggressive
Avoidance is mostly aversive
Absence is unintentional or aversive

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