Learning to be possessed as a form of pathogenic relating and a cause of certain delusions |
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Authors: | Gerald H. Zuk PhD |
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Affiliation: | (1) 25316 Pacy Street, 91351 Canyon Country, CA |
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Abstract: | A form of pathogenic relating observed frequently by the author in family interviews is described in which it is communicated that a member has acted as if possessed by evil forces. This form of pathogenic relating is termed learning to be possessed. A number of illustrations are provided of the way this learning takes place beginning in childhood; how the so-called victim can gain insight into the process so that he or she is spared the worst penalties for impulsive, aggressive, or irrational behavior; but how the insight may be a cause of delusions, particularly persecutory or paranoid delusions, that become fixed. A comparison is made with the psychoanalytic theory of paranoid delusion, because that appears to be the only extant theory with which a comparison can be made. |
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