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Paranoia is a thought process believed to be heavily influenced by anxiety or fear, often to the point of irrationality and delusion. Paranoid thinking typically includes persecutory beliefs concerning a perceived threat towards oneself. Historically, this characterization was used to describe any delusional state.

History

The word ''paranoia'' comes from the Greek "παράνοια" (''paranoia''), "madness" and that from "παρά" (''para''), "beside, by" + "νόος" (''noos''), "mind". The term was used to describe a mental illness in which a delusional belief is the sole or most prominent feature. In original attempt at classifying different forms of mental illness, Kraepelin used the term ''pure paranoia'' to describe a condition where a delusion was present, but without any apparent deterioration in intellectual abilities and without any of the other features of dementia praecox, the condition later renamed "schizophrenia". Notably, in his definition, the belief does not have to be persecutory to be classified as paranoid, so any number of delusional beliefs can be classified as paranoia. For example, a person who has the sole delusional belief that he is an important religious figure would be classified by Kraepelin as having 'pure paranoia'. According to Phelan, M. Padraig, W. Stern, J (2000) paranoia and paraphrenia are debated entities that were detached from dementia praecox by Kraepelin, who explained paranoia as a continuous systematized delusion arising much later in life with no presence of either hallucinations or a deteriorating course, paraphrenia as an identical syndrome to paranoia but with hallucinations. Even at the present time, a delusion need not be suspicious or fearful to be classified as paranoid. A person might be diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic without delusions of persecution, simply because their delusions refer mainly to themselves.

Use in modern psychiatry

In the DSM-IV-TR, paranoia is diagnosed in the form of: paranoid personality disorder

paranoid schizophrenia (a subtype of schizophrenia)

the persecutory type of delusional disorder, which is also called "querulous paranoia" when the focus is to remedy some injustice by legal action.

According to clinical psychologist P. J. McKenna, "As a noun, paranoia denotes a disorder which has been argued in and out of existence, and whose clinical features, course, boundaries, and virtually every other aspect of which is controversial. Employed as an adjective, paranoid has become attached to a diverse set of presentations, from paranoid schizophrenia, through paranoid depression, to paranoid personality—not to mention a motley collection of paranoid 'psychoses', 'reactions', and 'states'—and this is to restrict discussion to functional disorders. Even when abbreviated down to the prefix para-, the term crops up causing trouble as the contentious but stubbornly persistent concept of paraphrenia."

See also

Catastrophization

Delusions of reference

Distrust

Ideas of reference

Fusion paranoia

Monomania

Narcissistic personality disorder

Paranoid personality disorder

Pronoia

Schizophrenia

''Whispers: The Voices of Paranoia''

References

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;Further reading

Canetti, Elias (1962). ''Crowds and Power.'' Translated from the German by Carol Stewart. Gollancz, London. 1962.

Farrell, John (2006). ''Paranoia and Modernity: Cervantes to Rousseau''. Cornell University Press.

Freeman, D. & Garety, P. A. (2004). ''Paranoia: The Psychology of Persecutory Delusions''. Hove: Psychology Press. ISBN 1-84169-522-X

Igmade (Stephan Trüby et al., eds.), ''5 Codes: Architecture, Paranoia and Risk in Times of Terror'', Birkhäuser 2006. ISBN 3-7643-7598-1

Kantor, Martin (2004). ''Understanding Paranoia: A Guide for Professionals, Families, and Sufferers''. Westport: Praeger Press. ISBN 0-275-98152-5

Munro, A. (1999). ''Delusional disorder''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-58180-X

Sant, P. (2005). ''Delusional disorder''. Punjab: Panjab University Chandigarh. ISBN 0-521-58180-X

Sims, A. (2002). ''Symptoms in the mind: An introduction to descriptive psychopathology (3rd edition)''. Edinburgh: Elsevier Science Ltd. ISBN 0-7020-2627-1

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Adam Curtis (born 1955) is an award-winning British documentarian and writer. He has also worked as a television producer, director and narrator. He works for BBC Current Affairs.

Early life and education

Curtis was born in 1955. He attended the Sevenoaks School, where he was a member of the 'Art Room' that produced musicians Tom Greenhalgh and Mark White of The Mekons, along with Andy Gill and Jon King of Gang of Four.

Curtis completed a Bachelor of Arts in Human Sciences at Mansfield College, University of Oxford, where he studied genetics, evolutionary biology, psychology, politics, sociology and elementary statistics. After graduating, Curtis taught Politics at the University for a time.

Career

He left academia to make a career in television, obtaining a post on ''That's Life!'', a programme that often placed serious and humorous content in close juxtaposition.

Curtis makes extensive use of archive footage in his documentaries. He has acknowledged the influence of recordings made by Erik Durschmied and to "constantly using his stuff in my films". An ''Observer'' profile said of Curtis' style:

: Curtis has a remarkable feel for the serendipity of such moments, and an obsessive skill in locating them. "That kind of footage shows just how dull I can be," he admits, a little glumly. "The BBC has an archive of all these tapes where they have just dumped all the news items they have ever shown. One tape for every three months. So what you get is this odd collage, an accidental treasure trove. You sit in a darkened room, watch all these little news moments, and look for connections."

''The Observer'' adds "if there has been a theme in Curtis's work since, it has been to look at how different elites have tried to impose an ideology on their times, and the tragicomic consequences of those attempts."

Curtis received the Golden Gate Persistence of Vision Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival in 2005. In 2006 he was given the Alan Clarke Award for Outstanding Contribution to Television at the British Academy Television Awards. In 2009 Sheffield Doc/Fest awarded Curtis the inaugural Sheffield Inspiration Award for his inspiration to documentary makers and audiences.

Documentaries

Year	Documentary	Subject	Parts	Broadcast on	Awards
1983	''Just Another Day: Walton on the Naze''	Various long-standing British institutions.
1983	''The Tuesday Documentary: Trumpets and Typewriters''	The history of war correspondents.
1984	''Inquiry: The Great British Housing Disaster''.	The system-built housing of the 1960's.
1984	''Italians: Mayor of Montemilone''	With Dino Labriola
1984	''The Cost Of Treachery''	The Albanian Subversion, a 1949 plot in which the CIA and MI6 attempted to overthrow the Albanian government to weaken the Soviet Union. The counter-agent within the intelligence rank, Kim Philby.
1987	''40 Minutes: Bombay Hotel''	The luxurious Taj Mahal Palace & Tower in Mumbai, contrasted with the poverty of the slums of the city.
1988	''An Ocean Apart''	The process by which the United States was involved in the First World War.	Episode One: "Hats Off to Mr. Wilson".
1989	''40 Minutes: The Kingdom of Fun''	Documentary about the Metro Centre in Gateshead, developed by entrepreneur John Hall. The programme compares John Hall's plans to regenerate the North East, with those of T. Dan Smith.
1989	''Inside Story: The Road To Terror''	How the Iranian Revolution turned from idealism to terror. Draws parallels with the French Revolution two hundred years earlier.
1992			6
1995		The way that history and memory (both national and individual) have been used by politicians and others.	3
1996	''25 Million Pounds''	Nick Leeson and the collapse of Barings Bank.			San Francisco International Film Festival, 1998: Best Science and Nature Documentary
1997	''Modern Times: The Way of All Flesh''	The story, dating back to the 1950s, of the search for a cure to cancer and the impact of Henrietta Lacks, the "woman who will never die" because her cells never stopped reproducing.
1999	''The Mayfair Set''		4
2002	''The Century of the Self''	How Freud's discoveries concerning the unconscious led to Edward Bernays' development of public relations, the use of desire over need and self-actualisation as a means of achieving economic growth and the political control of population.	4	BBC Four, art house cinemas in the US	Broadcast Award: Best Documentary Series; Longman/History Today Awards: Historical Film of the Year; Entertainment Weekly, 2005: fourth best movie
2004	''The Power of Nightmares''	Suggested a parallel between the rise of Islamism in the Arab world and Neoconservatism in the United States in that both needed to inflate a myth of a dangerous enemy in order to draw people to support them.	3	BBC Two
2007		The modern concept of freedom.	3	BBC Two
2007	—	Television news reporters.	1	Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe, third episode of the fourth series
2009	—	The rise of "Oh Dear"-ism.	1	''Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe''
2009	''It Felt Like A Kiss''	Mixed media. Broadcast July 2.	1
2010	—	Paranoia and moral panics .	1	''Charlie Brooker's Newswipe'', fourth episode in the second series
2011		The computer as a model of the world around us.	3	BBC Two
2011	''Every Day Is Like Sunday'' (working title)	The dramatic downfall of the newspaper mogul, who used to dominate Britain before Rupert Murdoch arrived.	1

References

External links

"What's the big idea?", interview with Adam Curtis in the Guardian, May 2011

Adam Curtis's blog, BBC

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'''Normally associated with his peers in techno from Detroit, Europe and elsewhere, John Tejada has embraced electronic music as a personal frontier, expanding on his resume as a techno recording artist as producer, remixer, DJ, and label owner. Known for crafting a brand of subtle, musical techno, his recorded output ranges across tempo and genre lines, from chilled out affairs with spacious arrangements to pulsating, densely layered, deeply energetic tracks that work magnificently in the hands of DJs as well as on the home stereo.

John Tejada was born in Vienna, Austria on April 21, 1974. His parents, both professional classical musicians (his mother an opera singer and father a conductor) began his early piano training at the age of 4. In the summer of 1982, John would move with his mother to her place of birth, Los Angeles. It was that summer at the age of 8 another instrument would catch his eye, the drums. Teaching himself to play along to classic rock music, John quickly learned his way around the drum set (an instrument he still plays to this day in his I’m Not A Gun project). Everything changed however when he got his first taste of early 1980s hip hop music. The impact of those early productions and electronic experimentation was very strong. Soon after, at the age of 12 John was given his first set of turntables and a mixer. He wanted to figure out everything he was hearing DJs do at that time. His first gigs came at the age of 12 for his own school, DJing his school dances.

Soon after his fascination with DJing began his fascination with production began. Just as he was completely determined to learn the tricks of local DJs, he now wanted to know how the music was made. His introduction came around the age of 15, when he acquired his first looping delay. Soon after came his first workstation, an Ensoniq EPS sampler. This opened up a whole new world of possibilities. John spent every part of his day honing his craft.

In 1991, while still in high school, John was already recording his first productions. He was also involved in college radio, even though he was just a junior in high school. John had a spot on “The Fly ID Show” with DJ Rob One. John produced the show’s first record for Rob and also went on to do some hip hop production on Ruthless Records. It was during this time that he met his long time collaborator and best friend Arian Leviste. The two met at a hip hop recording session in ‘91. John, already tired of the hip hop scene and where it was going, spent hours talking to Arian about acid house, techno, ambient house and everything they seemed to have in common. The two agreed they would meet weekly to compose material. It took some time before they would release any music, but in 1994 they pressed up their own single and that started a chain reaction of releases. John and Arian during this time also were accepted into Cal Arts’ (California Institute for the Arts) electronic music program, but both decided not to attend to hone their craft on their own.

Soon after, John enjoyed a series of releases on European labels like A13, Multiplex, and Generations R&S.; In the fall of 1996 he started his own label, Palette Recordings as an outlet to release his own productions without having anyone tell him how to do it. The demand for his music continued to grow and labels such as Ferox, Sino, Mosaic, Immigrant, Plug Research, Pokerflat and 7th City all released Tejada 12”s.

John began traveling internationally in ‘97 to showcase his DJ skills around the globe, traveling to more than 20 countries and playing various clubs and festivals around the world. Festivals included Movement (formerly The Detroit Electronic Music Festival), Sonar Festival (in Spain and Tokyo), Dance Valley (Netherlands), Sync Festival (Greece), Mutek Mexico, as well as internationally known spaces such as Fabric (London), Yellow (Tokyo), Rex Club (Paris), The Walt Disney Concert Hall (Los Angeles) and many more.

In 1999, John met classical jazz guitarist Takeshi Nishimoto, which was the beginning of another musical frontier. The two had a similar meeting as John and Arian had years before and began talking about making music. The project I’m Not A Gun was born and signed soon after to Berlin-based City Centre Offices. This project would bring back John’s own training as a drummer while also trying his hand at the guitar. The project became a mix of John’s own electronic productions along with Takeshi’s professional guitar playing and John’s drumming. The project has enjoyed great reviews and success the world over and the duo has performed live in LA, Japan and Germany.

In the summer of 2004, John would - in one week - create the two songs that would catapult his techno career. The classic “Sweat On The Walls,” and “Mono On Mono” were released almost at the same time on two different labels. “Sweat” was released on Pokerflat and “Mono On Mono” on Palette. Together the two records sold over 23,000 copies on vinyl. This lead to the equally successful follow up singles “Paranoia,” “Mind Bend” (with more recent collaborator and Palette-signing, Justin Maxwell) “Voyager,” and “The End Of It All.”

With dozens of singles and remixes to his credit, he has also produced full-length albums for Kompakt, Playhouse, Palette, Plug Research, deFocus, Moods and Grooves, Immigrant and A13. For a complete discography please visit http://www.discogs.com/artist/John+Tejada.

Collaborations

Tejada has released several recordings with Arian Leviste over the span of 15 years. He is also a frequent collaborator with Divine Styler.

Tejada teamed up with Takeshi Nishimoto (a pupil of Pepe Romero) to form I'm Not A Gun. I'm Not A Gun has released 5 full length albums since 2003.

In 2006, he performed at several venues throughout Europe with Justin Maxwell, his newest associate.

In October 2007, Tejada and Arian Leviste embarked on their first tour together throughout Europe. The duo performed a live hardware set at the following venues: Mission (Leeds, UK), Click (Hamburg, Germany), Watergate (Berlin, Germany), Propaganda (Moscow, Russia), Maffia (Reggio Emilia, Italy), Batofar (Paris, France), and Compression @ King King (Los Angeles, California, USA).

Discography

Album

''Little Green Lights and Four Inch Faders'' (1998) - A13

''The Matrix of Us'' (2000) - Defocus

''Daydreams In Cold Weather'' (2002) - Plug Research

''The Toiling of Idle Hands'' (2003) - Immigrant Records

''Logic Memory Center'' (2004) - Plug Research

''Cleaning sound is a filthy business'' (2006) - Palette Recordings

''Where'' (2008) - Palette Recordings

"Parabolas" (2011) - Kompakt

EP

''Ebonics'' (1997) - Palette Recordings

''Genre'' (1998) - Palette Recordings

''Sonic Life'' (1998) - Ferox Records

''Song Forms & Freedom'' (2000) - Mosaic

''The Cover Up'' (2000) - 1200 Music

''Connection Remixes'' (2001) - Sheep Records

''Mating Rhythm(2001) - Mosaic

''The Toiling of Idle Hands'' (2004) - Immigrant

Compilation

''Fabric 44 - John Tejada'' (2009) - Fabric (London)

External links

Palette Recordings

RBMA Radio On Demand - Train Wreck Mix - John Tejada (Palette Rec., LA)

Interview John Tejada - Actualites Electroniques Interview John Tejada - Actualites Electroniques

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