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Review
. 2024 Jan 10:14:1307629.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1307629. eCollection 2023.

Changes of intuition in paranoid personality disorder

Kerrin Artemis Jacobs  1   2
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Changes of intuition in paranoid personality disorder

Kerrin Artemis Jacobs. Front Psychiatry. .

Abstract

Wherever psychopathology operates with the concept of (disorders of) the self and personality, it can address the role of the intuitive access we have toward ourselves, others, and the world. This study discusses the concept of oikeiôsis. It examines its role in explaining paranoia as a change in intuitive self-and-world relatedness. In the first step, symptomatic features of paranoid personality disorder are sketched, with a focus on the explanatory role of attentional and interpretative biases, which correlate with significant changes in intuitive processing. In the second step, the prototypical phenomenality of feelings of unfamiliarity and mistrust are discussed against the backdrop of changes of oikeiôsis in paranoid personality disorder. In the third step, the main therapeutic challenge in treating paranoid personality disorder-building a trustful relationship-is explored. It is concluded that the notion of oikeiôsis resonates particularly with introspection-based therapeutic approaches.

Keywords: intuition; oikeiôsis; paranoia; personality disorder; predictiveness.

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The author declares that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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