Those overwrought words were penned by a militant Protestant who was not at all alone in his conviction that there was a vast international plot being directed by the pope and Catholic monarchs in ...

An episode of The Simpsons provided my first introduction to paranoia. The episode featured Bart going through what we would clinically call a substance-induced psychotic break. The not-so-clinical ...

Paranoid thoughts, including thoughts that others are talking about you behind your back or are trying to make you look bad, can happen to everyone at some point in life. But paranoia is different.