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Paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions

Wilfred Bion articulates the dynamic nature of the positions, a point emphasised by Thomas Ogden, and expanded by John Steiner in terms of '"The equilibrium between the paranoid-schizoid and the depressive positions"'.


Banquets of the Black Widowers

"Sixty Million Trillion Combinations" (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, 5 May 1980) – A paranoid mathematician who suspects that his work on Goldbach's conjecture has been stolen.

Covered, A Revolution in Sound

# "Paranoid" (Black Sabbath cover written by Anthony Iommi, William Ward, Terrence Butler, and John Osbourne) - Avenged Sevenfold (2:44)

DC Universe

After the war, under pressure from the paranoid Committee on Un-American Activities, the JSA disbanded.

Doctor Bedlam

His name comes from the Bethlem Royal Hospital insane asylum, and is a reference to his madness-inducing "paranoid pill".

Episode.0

"Episode.0" and "Paranoid Doll" are the two Vocaloid songs that were previously picked by Gackt in a Nico Nico Douga fan video contest in 2009, with the prize being 10 million yen (US$120,000).

Lester Holt

He played himself anchoring an NBC newscast, but when he turns towards another camera, he looks straight towards a paranoid Tracy Jordan, who was watching the newscast, and told him that "The Black Crusaders" – a group of African-American performers – are going to get him (Tracy believes that this "group" exists).

Lisa Potts

Lisa Potts GM (married name Webb) is a former nursery teacher noted for saving her school children's lives from a machete attack by a man with severe paranoid schizophrenia on July 8, 1996 at the St Luke's Primary School in Blakenhall, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England.

Master Sibrand

Sibrand is one of the assassination targets in the original Assassin's Creed video game, where he is depicted as excessivly paranoid (due to the players recent success).

Neil Kopp

Kopp later produced Gus Van Sant's 2007 film Paranoid Park, which, combined with his work on Old Joy, earned him an Independent Spirit Producers Award as well as a nomination for Paranoid Park as Best Film.

Nude recreation

He undertook his walk as a protest, in order to celebrate the naked human form, and to try to convince the public to stop being paranoid about the naked body.

Paranoia Network

The Paranoia Network, founded in November 2003, is a self-help user-run organisation in Sheffield, England, for people who have paranoid or delusional beliefs.

Paranoid Park

O'Bryant Square in Portland, Oregon has the nickname Paranoid Park

Burnside Skatepark in Portland, Oregon, where the 2007 film Paranoid Park was shot

Richard Rouse III

This eventually led to the creation of his own company, Paranoid Productions, which produced two Macintosh games, the story-centric fantasy RPG Odyssey: The Legend of Nemesis and the military first-person shooter and strategy hybrid Damage Incorporated.

Rustle the Leaf

Also in the cast were 6 other characters: "Dandy" (a persecuted, paranoid Dandelion seed), "Fuego" (a firefly), "Paige" (a water drop), "Dizzy" (a helicoptering Silver Maple seed), "Professor Oakmont" (a sagacious Oak tree), and "Amelia" (an adventurous dragonfly).

Savage Skies

The game was also to feature music from Osbourne, including "Crazy Train" and "Paranoid," as well as a track recorded specifically for iRock (the song was called "Black Skies").

Shot by Both Sides

Shot by Both Sides is also the title of the English translation of Meisei Goto's paranoid Japanese novel, Hasamiuchi (original 1973, translation 2008).

Sports day

Many parents have expressed anger at being unable to take photographs or videos as souvenirs of these events, and the ban has been criticised by some as a paranoid over-reaction to public concerns about pedophilia and child safety issues.

Testube

!, Thine Eyes, Left Spine Down, the Unter Null side-project Stray, Diverje, B! Machine, Monstrum Sepsis, Paranoid Axis, Biopsy, White Trash Compactor, Leæther Strip (for the single Carry Me) and works by fellow Glim Records recording artist LowHero DLL.

Tinfoil Hat Linux

While the paranoid mode security measures may seem over the top and might be found funny, they are a good education in the types of issues that must be considered for high security.

Trust Us, We're Experts

An April 2001 Village Voice review of the book says the book is "exhaustively detailed", "calmly convincing", and "light on rhetoric", warning readers that the book may induce "paranoid fatalism" about corporate manipulations.

Uh... Oh... Ah...

Quinn (Rupert Friend) visits her there to warn her of the danger she is in, but an increasingly paranoid Carrie accuses him of having been sent there by Saul to threaten her.


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