A model of persecutory delusions: 1994.
The self, attributional processes and abnormal beliefs: Towards a model of persecutory delusions (Bentall, Kinderman, and Kaney, 1994).

A paper [1] reviewing a series of recent investigations into cognitive abnormalities associated with persecutory delusions – by Richard P. Bentall, Peter Kinderman and Sue Kaney published in Behaviour Research and Therapy Volume 32, Issue 3, March 1994, Pages 331–341

Abstract

"In this paper we review a series of recent investigations into cognitive abnormalities associated with persecutory delusions. Studies indicate that persecutory delusions are associated with abnormal attention to threat-related stimuli, an explanatory bias towards attributing negative outcomes to external causes and biases in information processing relating to the self-concept. We propose an integrative model to account for these findings in which it is hypothesized that, in deluded patients, activation of self/ideal discrepancies by threat-related information triggers defensive explanatory biases, which have the function of reducing the self/ideal discrepancies but result in persecutory ideation. We conclude by discussing the implications of this model for the cognitive-behavioural treatment of paranoid delusions."

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