Ginger explains the case of schizophrenic James Tilly Matthews, trauma-related psychoses, and the common paranoid persecutory delusion of influencing machines.
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Gibson, L.E., Alloy, L.B., & Ellman, L.M. (2016). Trauma and the psychosis spectrum: A review of symptom specificity and explanatory mechanisms. Clinical Psychology Review, 49, 92-105.
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