About The Voice of Paranoia: From Misery to Greater Autonomy
This book attempts to understand why paranoia exists and what can be done about it. The author believes loneliness, distrust, and low self-esteem are the core of paranoia. Understanding what made us paranoid puts us on our path to finding our true self among the masses of others on this planet. We realize how paranoia has complicated our life.
This book offers a strikingly new approach to understanding paranoia and offers insights and methods to minimize paranoia’s impact on our life. It studies paranoia in its depth, as it is lived by paranoid individuals, and explains the paranoid experience. This book gives paranoia a voice, an inner voice that speaks to the heart of one’s emotional and confusing beliefs about oneself and the world. The author finds hope in understanding paranoia as an inner guide, rectifying our lives and finding purpose again. Once the paranoid person flips the voice of paranoia from fearful, suspicious, and belittling accusations believed to come from others, to your inner guide which helps explain why you suffer as you do, paranoia becomes a supportive tool for understanding ourselves better. Paranoia becomes the teacher, instructing us on how and where we need to make changes to our life.
This book explores paranoia from a humanistic lived-experience, identifying the roots of paranoia, and the interaction these roots have on one’s everyday life. It instructs how therapy can assist with becoming less paranoid and more focused on our individuation process.
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Author Bio:
Daniel has been a Licensed Professional Counselor in the State of West Virginia for the past 25 years. He has worked as a psychotherapist in private practice for most of those years, concerning himself with all mental illnesses and mental health states. He worked at Shuman Detention Center in Pittsburgh on the locked jail ward for teenage violent sex offenders, and on the locked units of the county psychiatric hospital in Beckley, WV. He has been interested in understanding paranoia since his childhood, wondering why he was so afraid and distrustful of others, and why he felt he was the center of others’ negative attention.
Daniel got his undergraduate degree in mathematics and computer science, but it was when he quit computer work and went to graduate school studying Existential-Phenomenological psychology at Duquesne University, a school specializing in the humanistic approach to understanding human nature. Upon moving to West Virginia, Daniel taught psychology at the local community college as an adjunct instructor for fourteen years and is currently an active member of the WV Licensed Professional Counselors Association.
Daniel has many interests and hobbies, including gardening, karate, woodworking, and reading. He lives in Beckley, WV, with his wife, Debi, and several dogs, cats, and chickens. He enjoys swimming and playing with his five grandchildren.