Recovery From Paranoia: a Qualitative Exploration

Inclusion Criteria

• •Participant has recovered from the paranoia. This is defined as: A.) conviction in persecution beliefs is rated as less than 10% and B.) not experiencing significant distress related to paranoia and C.) currently scoring outside the clinical range of the revised Green et al., Paranoid Thoughts Scale (R-GPTS; Freeman, 2019);
• •Participants should have had experiences of paranoia in the context of non-affective psychosis. This will be determined by participant's agreement that they previously had the sort of thoughts listed in the revised Green et al. Paranoid Thoughts Scale (R-GPTS; Freeman, 2019);
• •Participant is currently a patient of Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust;
• •Participant is willing and able to give informed consent for participation in the study;
• •Aged 16 years or above;
• •Participant has sufficient English language skills to participate in the interview.