Paranoia in Childhood protection: delusional contagion

Achilles: Do you hear the men’s terrible cries?

Clytemnestra: What are they shouting about?

Achilles: about your daughter.

Clytemnestra: That is a bad omen.

Achilles: They say she must be sacrificed.

Euripides, Iphigenia at Aulis.

Paranoia is "a place of quiet horror" that is one that nobody wants to listen to. Only a few professionals are brave enough to call it by its name: paranoia.

For if perversion helps bury one’s head in the sand, paranoia helps to lose it; so professionals lose it quite unknowingly; since paranoia defends the indefensible, inverts moral values and consists in a soul killing project, to use the words of famous paranoiac in psychopathology literature: the Schreber case.

This very pathology of paranoia is most unknown because dangerous and most dangerous because unknown. 

It is overspread though, often confused with perversion, its best ally, and makes considerable mess in human groups through the effects of delusional contagious.

As a preamble, here is a small digest of what it’s all about:

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