ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the presenting phenomenology and then attempt to fit it into the generic cognitive model. It pinpoints the patient's beliefs, and specify how these beliefs made them hypersensitive to other people's expressed criticisms and negative attitudes. The phenomenology of the patient's disorder can be readily recognized in the description of his life history, delusions, and behaviors. One can discern specific threads running through childhood, adolescence, and adulthood that are woven into the fabric of their delusions. The systematic structure of the interview as outlined in Cognitive Therapy of Depression. This structure, which has been generally used by cognitive therapists treating schizophrenia consists, briefly, in setting an agenda, employing Socratic questioning, providing capsule summaries at intervals, eliciting feedback, and assigning homework. Finally, they employ imagery techniques, like having them to imagine the way of perceives now and the way they would like to be and conduct the role-plays designed to empower them through assertive and social skills training.
