PERSONALITY, SELF-PERCEPTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS, DEFENSE MECHANISMS AND COPING STRATEGIES IN PATIENTS WITH PARANOID DISORDER; A QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to analyze the personality, self-perception, psychological problems, defense mechanisms and coping strategies in patients with paranoid disorder in their life.
Methods and materials: The qualitative research method was used for narrative analysis based on the McAdams review form to analyze the life stories of patients with paranoid disorder. The research population consisted of paranoid patients admitted to Razi psychiatric hospital in Tehran and sampling method was purposive and the interviews eventually saturated with 8 people. The perception and understanding of the patients about identity and disease, values and beliefs, similarity in their narrative, the important individuals and events were studied. Data analysis was carried out using coding at three levels of open, axial, core using MAXQDA version 12.3.
Results and conclusion: Coping strategies including problem-solving strategies, emotional coping strategies, emotional dysregulation; defense mechanisms including pathological defense mechanisms; health and problems related to physical illness and psychological problems, which all of this express the experience and dimensions of patients' perception of their lives.
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