Paranoia [ˌpærəˈnɔɪ.ə] (adjective: paranoid [ˈpærə.nɔɪd]) 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, or beliefs of conspiracy concerning a perceived threat towards oneself. (e.g. "Everyone is out to get me.") Making false accusations and the general distrust of others also frequently accompany paranoia. For example, an incident most people would view as an accident, a paranoid person might make an accusation that it was intentional. However, just because an individual is paranoid does not necessarily mean his or her suspicions are false, as noted in Catch-22: "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you."

Historically, this characterization was used to describe any delusional state. In modern colloquial use, the term "paranoia" is sometimes misused to describe a phobia. The general lack of blame in phobia disorders sharply differentiates the two. In other words, fearing that something bad or harmful might happen does not in itself imply paranoia. Rather, with paranoia there is an irrational fear of malice by others (excepting rare cases of schizophrenia).

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The word paranoia comes from the Greek "παράνοια" (paranoia), "madness"^[1] and that from "παρά" (para), "beside, by"^[2] + "νόος" (noos), "mind".^[3] The term was used to describe a mental illness in which a delusional belief is the sole or most prominent feature. In an 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)^[4] 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.

[edit] Use in modern psychiatry

In the DSM-IV-TR, paranoia is diagnosed in the form of:^[5]

• paranoid personality disorder^[6]
• 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.^[7]

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."^[8]

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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
• Siegel, Ronald K. (1994). Whispers: The Voices of Paranoia. New York: Crown. ISBN 0684802856. 

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John Tejada

John Tejada (born April 21, 1974 ) is an electronic music artist, music producer, DJ, and record label owner. Born in Vienna, Austria, his Austrian father was an orchestra composer/conductor who met his mother, a soprano singer of Mexican-American descent while she was studying in Vienna.

He has recorded under diverse monikers for different labels. Names he has recorded under include Mr. Hazeltine, Lucid Dream, and Autodidact. He also provided a remix to Such Great Heights, from The Postal Service.

[edit] Collaborations

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

[edit] Discography

Album

• Little Green Lights and Four Inch Faders (1998) - A13^{[disambiguation needed ]}
• 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

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)]

[edit] External links

• Palette Recordings
• John Tejada at Allmusic
• John Tejada discography at Discogs
• RBMA Radio On Demand - Train Wreck Mix - John Tejada (Palette Rec., LA)
• (French) Interview John Tejada - Actualites Electroniques
• (English) Interview John Tejada - Actualites Electroniques

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Adam Curtis
Adam Curtis at the San Francisco International Film Festival in 2005
Born	Adam Curtis (1955-05-26) 26 May 1955 (age 57)
Nationality	United Kingdom
Occupation	Documentarian

Adam Curtis (born 1955) is a British BAFTA winning documentarian and a writer, television producer, director and narrator. He works for BBC Current Affairs.

[edit] Early life and education

Curtis was born in 1955. He attended the Sevenoaks School.^[1]

Curtis completed a Bachelor of Arts in Human Sciences at Mansfield College, University of Oxford, where he studied genetics, evolutionary biology, psychology, politics, anthropology and statistics.^[2] He started a Doctor of Philosophy and was a Tutor in Politics at the University of Oxford but became disillusioned with academia.^[3]

[edit] 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".^[4] 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."^[5]

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."^[5]

Curtis received the Golden Gate Persistence of Vision Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival in 2005.^[6] 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.

[edit] Filmography

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• "What's the big idea?", interview with Adam Curtis in the Guardian, May 2011
• Adam Curtis's blog, BBC
• Adam Curtis at the Internet Movie Database
• Film Review, Heso magazine