The Lived Experience of Paranoia: Systematic Review of Qualitative Studies
Schizophrenia Bulletin Open 2026 Angela Muscettola, Giulia Drusiani, Martina Desenzani et al.
Background and Hypothesis: Paranoia is commonly conceptualized along a continuum ranging from transient suspiciousness and mistrust to fixed persecutory delusions. However, similar paranoid contents may differ in conviction, flexibility, self-reference, distress, functional impact, and embeddedness in broader changes of self, agency, and world-experience. We synthesized qualitative evidence on...