Psychological Analysis of Suspicion in Islamic Sources and Its Comparison with Paranoid Personality Disorder

This article, using a descriptive-analytical method and with the aim of psychologically analyzing suspicion and comparing it with paranoid personality disorder in terms of overlap and differences in their symptomatology and treatment, has examined these two concepts in Islamic and psychological sources. In addition to explaining the concept of suspicion, it has also examined its most important factors and causes, symptoms and treatment methods of suspicion from the perspective of Islamic and psychological sources. The results show that suspicion in religious teachings includes a broader conceptual scope than paranoid personality disorder, and of course in psychology as well, although suspicion is analyzed as a mental and behavioral continuum and not only in the form of paranoid personality disorder; but paranoid personality disorder is only the extreme and extreme point of this continuum. In terms of symptomatology, suspicion and paranoia are almost the same in general and in their main basis, namely behaviors, thoughts, emotions arising from and resulting from suspicion and pessimism towards individuals; However, for each, other specific symptoms are also stated, and the paranoid symptomatology also refers to more details. In Islamic sources, cognitive causes, namely weakness in faith, lack of reason, ignorance, association with evil, and pollution and impurity of the soul, are mentioned for suspicion; while in the case of paranoid personality disorder, various causes are emphasized, including genetic causes, cognitive causes, including incompatible assumptions and cognitions, cultural causes, and psychodynamic causes .Regarding treatment methods, in each of the sources, specific cognitive and behavioral methods are described, in addition to the fact that drug treatments are also mentioned for the treatment of a paranoid person.

کلیدواژه ها:

Suspicion ، Islamic sources ، Personality Disorder ، Paranoid