Talk:Persecution complex

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My husband is showing severe signs of what i call a persecution complex? He accuses, comes to his conclusiong and then thats the way it is after has figured it out. No matter how aweful it sounds once he has performed his: Lawyer, Judge, Jury and Prosecution conclusions there is no convencing him any other way. He has no room for reasoning.

You can apologize and say "I'm sorry if you heard me wrong" His answer would be, no you just are trying to change your story. We have been married for 2 years, and trust me i didnt see this mack truck coming. Mental disorders does run in his family, but i saw no sign in him.

He is very insecure, so it looks as if we are dealing with more than one the here. Another example we were looking for a small bottle of lotion, he looked on this table moved a couple of things and didnt find it. I said go and check to make sure you didnt throw it down the laundrey shoot with you clothing. He went to the basement, came back up and there the lotion was right were he looked before he went down to the basement, but I had to have put it there. I was playing games with him. I said i promise i didnt move from this spot, he said i was trying to make him think he is crazy.

I said whats wrong with looking over something, you dont have to be crazy to do that. He said i know i wouldnt have looked over that bottle. There is sooooo, much more but if you have a diagnosis for something along these lines, i need to allow him to read it.

I told him, he needs to get some help because this behavior is killing our marriage. Every month its something different. He consistantly accused me of thinking about or cheating. Which he has given our marriage these sorts of issues with major lieing and trust issues. I'm trying to work through some of these things because its still very early, but if he doesnt get help, the mental issue is a loosing battle i do know. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.31.54.213 (talk • contribs)

[edit] Kyanka syndrome

I didn't find any google hits for this, so I removed it. There was no ref. --DanielCD 18:06, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] In Rhetoric

I don't know so much about psychiatry, but in psychology the term 'persecution complex' is rarely used anymore except in discussion of the history of psychology, instead people normally talk more specifically about the various forms of paranoia or compulsive behaviour elements of pathologys that could each conceiveably fall into the wider category of a 'persecution complex'. Much Like 'superiority complex'(Social aloofness) or 'Hollywood Complex'(distorted view of the US), the term 'persecution complex' now sees much use in debate, on subjects as diverse as Isreal's forgein policy and religion in schools, as a rhetorical technique to belittle someone's real or perceived oppression. I've tried to write a new section for the article detailing this usage under "Use in rhetoric", but I'm having problems with citations. My library lacks any sources on rhetorical techniques and it's not really something people write about alot. Do you think examples of it in usage would serve adequately as proof of this usage? or is it not widespread enough to get away with a mention without a citation on the subject itself? ELMO 14:30, 25 April 2007 (UTC)