Psychologists have long known that certain linguistic habits reveal how people are functioning internally. For example, ...

Personality disorders may be the best way to understand dictators, autocrats, and bullies, rather than labeling them crazy, ...

Paranoid Personality Disorder (PPD) is a long-term mental health condition where a person has a persistent, deeply rooted distrust and suspicion of others, even when there’s no real reason to be ...

If conversations with them leave you questioning what just happened and doubting your own judgment, you may be caught in the orbit of a high-conflict personality. You may have met people who seemed to ...

Among the many analytic tools of psychiatry, the one most pertinent for the current political discussion is the paranoid personality paradigm. Its leading markers are detachment and adversarial ...

Judge Willis Kulp asked recently, “Where does hatred for Trump come from? And why?” Here is an answer. According mental health experts, Trump has narcissistic, antisocial (sociopathic) and paranoid ...

Many people in older generations grew up believing any form of mental illness was a sign of weakness — something that not only shouldn’t be talked about, but should be collectively ignored. Certain ...

As the second season of “Severance,” the lavishly surreal series on Apple TV+, comes to an end, faithful viewers may be left with an unshakable unease. The show is about many things — work, grief, ...

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), a disorder that involves rumination, can lead to paranoid thoughts and paranoia. OCD occurs when a person experiences a cycle of obsessive thoughts and urges ...

Jayashri Kulkarni receives funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia and educational plus clinical trial grants from pharmaceutical companies that manufacture ...