'Even paranoids have enemies' is the reply Golda Meir is said to have made to Henry Kissinger who, during the 1973 Sinai talks, accused her of being paranoid for hesitating to grant further concessions to the Arabs. It is used as part of the title of this book to highlight the comlex relationship between paranoia and persecution The book is divided into three sections. Section one addresses aspects of the complex psychological impact that experiences of external and internal persecution have on the individual. Section two brings together expositions on paranoid and persecutory processes in groups, institutions and bureaucracies. Section three discusses the social, political and cultural factors which give rise to these processes. The theoretical viewpoints introduced and discussed come to life in the political, social and historical arenas where the politics of the Middle East, racism, the pressures of Japanese society and the dynamics of the drug scene are used to illustrate and understand the issues involved in paranoid thinking and in persecution. The authors' perspectives, from psychoanalytic psychotherapy, psychiatry, politics, sociology, history and the arts, shed light on phenomena which are often taken for granted and show how our thinking on these matters has implications for social and ethical concerns and for clinical practice. Joseph H. Berke, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, London, David Edgar, University of Birmingham, Leonard Fagin, Psychiatrist, Forest Healthcare National Health Trust and University

Table of Contents:
General introduction; Part 1 Psychological; Introduction; Chapter 1 Being in a persecutory world, Salomon Resnik; Chapter 2 From wounded victims to scarred survivors, Andrea Sabbadini; Chapter 3 The black hole of dread The psychic reality of children of Holocaust survivors, Ilany Kogan; Chapter 4 The ‘end-of-the-world’ vision and the psychotic experience, Robert Jay Lifton; Chapter 5 Only pretend, David Edgar; Part 2 Social and institutional; Introduction; Chapter 6 Paranoid social developments as a consequence of ideological and bureaucratic regression, Otto F. Kernberg; Chapter 7 Paranoia, groups and enquiry, Robert D. Hinshelwood; Chapter 8 Paranoia in institutional life, Leonard Fagin; Chapter 9 Bureaucracies at work, John Jackson; Part 3 Cultural and political; Introduction; Chapter 10 Reefer madness, Joseph H. Berke; Chapter 11 Between history and me Persecution paranoia and the police, Calvin C. Hernton; Chapter 12 Machine phenomena, Stella Pierides; Chapter 13 Paranoia and persecution in modern Japanese life, Hisako Watanabe; Chapter 14 Peace and paranoia, Stanley Schneider; Name Index; Subject Index;