{"id":97,"date":"2005-05-26T11:23:17","date_gmt":"2005-05-26T15:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/26\/internet-features-in-modern-paranoid-delusions\/"},"modified":"2005-05-26T11:23:17","modified_gmt":"2005-05-26T15:23:17","slug":"internet-features-in-modern-paranoid-delusions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/26\/internet-features-in-modern-paranoid-delusions\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet features in modern paranoid delusions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mindhacks.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/internet_delusions.html\">wrote<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A report in the medical journal Psychopathology notes that psychotic delusions increasingly concern the internet, suggesting high-technology can fulfil the role of malign &#8216;magical&#8217; forces often experienced in psychosis.<br \/>\nIn one case, a patient began to have paranoid thoughts and used an internet search engine to investigate suspicions about an ingredient on a chewing gum packet.<br \/>\nHer searches led her to believe she had discovered a secret terrorist network, and was therefore being personally targeted by the authorities using phone taps and hidden cameras&#8230;<br \/>\nThe authors also consider that a person&#8217;s understanding of technology may be a limiting factor in their ability to incorporate it into a delusional system. People with a poor understanding for example, may be more likely to attribute seemingly supernatural abilities to technology.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Anyone in the field of psychopathology here care to comment?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone wrote: A report in the medical journal Psychopathology notes that psychotic delusions increasingly concern the internet, suggesting high-technology can fulfil the role of malign &#8216;magical&#8217; forces often experienced in psychosis. In one case, a patient began to have paranoid thoughts and used an internet search engine to investigate suspicions about an ingredient on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}