In times of unexpected uncertainty, such as the sudden appearance of a global pandemic, people may be more prone to paranoia, Yale University researchers suggest in a new study published in the ...

Paranoid personality disorder may be first apparent in childhood or adolescence. People who suffer prefer solitude, have poor peer relationships, social anxiety, academic underachievement, ...

“Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested.” So begins Franz Kafka’s The Trial, a novel Kafka worked on between 1914 and 1915 but never ...

This article was originally published on Leafly and appears here with permission. Few feelings are as unpleasant as being convinced that someone is out to get you. Of the cascade of effects that ...