ABSTRACT
PSYCHOPATHOLOGY of everyday life abounds in examples of paranoid delusions. We are all apt to feel at times that it always rains when we have planned to spend a day out of doors, that the bus going in the opposite direction to ours always comes first, that some unfortunate experience we have had was directly due to somebody’s ill-will or at least to fate’s. Usually, however, this type of paranoid delusion is easily corrected. On second thoughts we remember many occasions when the weather was kind, when our bus came immediately, or even when we were particularly lucky; and we know that our unpleasant experiences are not caused by enemies, personal or impersonal, but result from other factors, including our own errors of judgment and other imperfections, -v
