'50 Psychology Ideas You Really Need to Know' by Adrian Furnhamの11章Delusionsからの引用です。
However, other researchers point to the fact that many with the disorder have had 'difficult' childhoods characterized by instability and turbulence, callousness and coldness. Thus some psychoanalytically inclined psychologists have seen delusions as an impairment in the ego defence system aimed to protect and bolster the self. So they see the paranoid or persecutory delusions as an attempt to project onto others things that the individuals do not like to admit in themselves.
"paranoid or persecutory delusions" とあるので "persecutory delusions" の意味は "paranoid" とだいたい同じようですが、Outlookの検索では次の辞典しか説明がありませんでした。
・Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine: A fixed, false, and inflexible belief that others are engaging in a plot or plan to harm an individual.
・Wikipedia: A persecutory delusion or persecution complex is a common type of delusional condition in which the affected person believes that harm is going to occur to oneself by a persecutor, despite a clear lack of evidence. The person may believe that they are being targeted by an individual or a group of people. Persecution delusions are very diverse in terms of content and vary from the possible, albeit improbable, to the completely bizarre. The delusion can be found in a multitude of disorders, being more usual in psychotic disorders, such as schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder and delusional disorder.
"persecution complex" とも言われるとありましたが、これで調べると普通の辞書にも次の様な説明がありました。
・Oxford English Dictionary: a strong false belief or fear that other people hate you or are trying to harm you
・Collins Dictionary: an acute irrational fear that other people are plotting one's downfall and that they are responsible for one's failures: The man with a persecution complex who sees conspiracies where there are none.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: People with a persecution complex suffer from the feeling that other people are trying to harm them.
日本語の被害妄想のことですね。
However, other researchers point to the fact that many with the disorder have had 'difficult' childhoods characterized by instability and turbulence, callousness and coldness. Thus some psychoanalytically inclined psychologists have seen delusions as an impairment in the ego defence system aimed to protect and bolster the self. So they see the paranoid or persecutory delusions as an attempt to project onto others things that the individuals do not like to admit in themselves.
"paranoid or persecutory delusions" とあるので "persecutory delusions" の意味は "paranoid" とだいたい同じようですが、Outlookの検索では次の辞典しか説明がありませんでした。
・Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine: A fixed, false, and inflexible belief that others are engaging in a plot or plan to harm an individual.
・Wikipedia: A persecutory delusion or persecution complex is a common type of delusional condition in which the affected person believes that harm is going to occur to oneself by a persecutor, despite a clear lack of evidence. The person may believe that they are being targeted by an individual or a group of people. Persecution delusions are very diverse in terms of content and vary from the possible, albeit improbable, to the completely bizarre. The delusion can be found in a multitude of disorders, being more usual in psychotic disorders, such as schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder and delusional disorder.
"persecution complex" とも言われるとありましたが、これで調べると普通の辞書にも次の様な説明がありました。
・Oxford English Dictionary: a strong false belief or fear that other people hate you or are trying to harm you
・Collins Dictionary: an acute irrational fear that other people are plotting one's downfall and that they are responsible for one's failures: The man with a persecution complex who sees conspiracies where there are none.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: People with a persecution complex suffer from the feeling that other people are trying to harm them.
日本語の被害妄想のことですね。
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