Even Paranoids Have Enemies

Joseph H. Berke is the founder and Director of the Arbours Crisis Centre, London., Stella Pierides is Associate Director of the Centre, and both are psychoanalytic psychotherapists in private practice., Andrea Sabbadini is a psychoanalyst in private practice in London., Stanley Schneider is a psychoanalyst and Professor of Psychology at the Hebrew University and Michlalah, Jerusalem.

• General introduction; Part 1 Psychological; Introduction; Chapter 1 Being in a persecutory world, Salomon Resnik; Chapter 2 From wounded victims to scarred survivors, Andrea Sabbadini; Chapter 3 The black hole of dread The psychic reality of children of Holocaust survivors, Ilany Kogan; Chapter 4 The ‘end-of-the-world’ vision and the psychotic experience, Robert Jay Lifton; Chapter 5 Only pretend, David Edgar; Part 2 Social and institutional; Introduction; Chapter 6 Paranoid social developments as a consequence of ideological and bureaucratic regression, Otto F. Kernberg; Chapter 7 Paranoia, groups and enquiry, Robert D. Hinshelwood; Chapter 8 Paranoia in institutional life, Leonard Fagin; Chapter 9 Bureaucracies at work, John Jackson; Part 3 Cultural and political; Introduction; Chapter 10 Reefer madness, Joseph H. Berke; Chapter 11 Between history and me Persecution paranoia and the police, Calvin C. Hernton; Chapter 12 Machine phenomena, Stella Pierides; Chapter 13 Paranoia and persecution in modern Japanese life, Hisako Watanabe; Chapter 14 Peace and paranoia, Stanley Schneider; Name Index; Subject Index;

'This is a very stimulating book that makes an important and valuable contribution to the understanding of the subject of paranoia and persecution ... I would whole heartedly recommend this very thoughtful book.' - The book club of the British Analytical Society