In another exercise, Garret helps residents experience how paranoid people invest everyday images with self-referential meaning. Have they ever passed a police car parked on the highway shoulder, which then pulls out and starts driving behind them, he asks. "You're temporarily encapsulated in a microcosm in which you and the policeman are engaged in an intense drama," resulting in heightened anxiety and the expectation of possible punishment, Garrett says to the group. "Fear, guilt, shame, and other intense emotions shape what the psychotic person sees and hears in the world around him all the time."

Resources

Milgram: APS Observer 20, no. 11 (December 2007). A complete presentation of Burger's study is in press with American Psychologist.

Mars/Venus: Current Directions in Psychological Science 16, no. 5 (October 2007): 259-63; American Psychologist 60, no.6 (September 2005): 581-92.

PTSD: IOM report at http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11955.

Meditation: Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics 76, no. 6 (October 2007): 332-38.

Alliance Gap: Psychotherapy Research 17, no. 6 (November 2007): 629-42.

Psychosis: Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice 79, no. 4 (December 2006): 595-610.

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