ABSTRACT
This chapter examines some fundamental issues related to paranoia and enmity in groups and organisations. Paranoia, hatred, and enmity are usually thought of and treated as individual intrapsychic processes and states. It presents a brief survey of paranoiagenesis in groups and organisations and several levels of understanding group and organisational pathology. The chapter describes the special nature and place of paranoia within a tripartite model of individual, interpersonal, and organisational dynamics. It discusses the relationship between corruption in social systems and psychotic anxiety, and draws a parallel between value systems as providing guidance for reality testing and the role played by the primary task in organisations. Paranoiagenesis is ubiquitous in groups and organisations, in institutions and large social systems. Group behaviour and pathology has been conceptualised at several levels of abstraction. The chapter expresses that corruption plays a significant role in institutional and organisational regression.
