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DEXTER M. BULLARD, M.D.

AMA Arch Gen Psychiatry 1960;2(2):137-141.

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The paranoid person is a suspicious, distrustful, hostile character who sees most of the people in his world as being against him, bent on his humiliation, and organized to a greater or less degree in a plan to see that his desires are thwarted. By the time this person has become a hospitalized paranoid patient these characteristics are seen in more pronounced forms. Suspicions have become certainties; doubts have become delusions; imagined thoughts have become hallucinations; blame and responsibility for what the patient has experienced have undergone a shift and are now attributed to others.

How does one go about beginning psychotherapy with a person whose words and demeanor say in effect: "I want little or no part of you. There is nothing the matter with me. ‘They’ are responsible for my being here. All I want is to get out, and if you . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Rockville, Md.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication June 30, 1959.

Read at the 11th Annual Symposium of the Veterans Administration Hospital at Little Rock, Ark.

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