パラノイア

Paranoia: The Twenty First Century Fear

買っても読まない気がするので、とりあえず買わないが、以下はGuardian Weeklyからのメモ。

Some people have become so cynical that they don't believe in anything any more. In them, healthy scepticism has been replaced by a total breakdown in trust, the belief that everybody lies.

[W]hereas anxiety may lead to fearing harm from a spider, or of being humiliated in a social situation, it doesn't lead to a belief that the spider or others intend to humiliate or hurt us. It's the attribution of intent that distinguishes paranoia.

(`Paranoia creeps into our lives' in the Guardian Weekly, 20.03.09)

人口の4分の1が軽度のパラノイアとかなんとか。認知行動療法が有効とのこと。