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United States of Paranoia: They See Gangs of Stalkers
By MIKE McPHATE JUNE 10, 2016
Timothy Trespas at his home in Brooklyn, where he now lives, last month. “I don’t really have any friends anymore. I’ve become so extremely isolated,” he said.
Nobody believed him. His family told him to get help. But Timothy Trespas, an out-of-work recording engineer in his early 40s, was sure he was being stalked, and not by just one person, but dozens of them.
He would see the operatives, he said, disguised as ordinary people, lurking around his Midtown Manhattan neighborhood. Sometimes they bumped into him and whispered nonsense into his ear, he said.
“Now you see how it works,” they would say.
At first, Mr. Trespas wondered if it was all in his head. Then he encountered a large community of like-minded people on the internet who call themselves “targeted individuals,” or T.I.s, who described going through precisely the same thing.
elfismiles » 10 Jun 2016 16:29 wrote:United States of Paranoia: The World of Gang-Stalking
By MIKE McPHATE
JUNE 10, 2016
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/11/healt ... .html?_r=0
[/quote][/quote]The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology
Volume 26, Issue 5, 2015
Complaints of group-stalking (‘gang-stalking’): an exploratory study of their nature and impact on complainants
DOI:
10.1080/14789949.2015.1054857
Lorraine P. Sheridana & David V. Jamesb*
pages 601-623
Received: 16 Dec 2014
Accepted: 6 May 2015
Published online: 16 Jun 2015
Abstract
Stalking primarily concerns the actions of individuals. However, some victims report stalking by organised groups, this being known as ‘group-’ or ‘gang-stalking’. This phenomenon has not been subject to systematic study. An anonymous questionnaire was completed online by self-defined victims of stalking. One thousand and forty respondents met research definitions for stalking, of which 128 (12.3%) reported group-stalking. One hundred and twenty-eight individually stalked cases were randomly selected as a comparison group. All cases of reported group-stalking were found likely to be delusional, compared with 3.9% of individually stalked cases. There were highly significant differences between the two groups on most parameters examined. The group-stalked scored more highly on depressive symptoms, post-traumatic symptomatology and adverse impact on social and occupational functioning. Group-stalking appears to be delusional in basis, but complainants suffer marked psychological and practical sequelae. This is important in assessment of risk in stalking cases, early referral to psychiatric services and allocation of police resources.
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stalking, group-stalking, gang-stalking, victims, delusions, post-traumatic disorders
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1 ... 15.1054857
American Dream » 25 May 2017 16:15 wrote:My apologies- somehow I thought you had posted a previous nyt article on the culture from about 10 years ago!
Grizzly » 04 Aug 2017 12:07 wrote:Abstract is nice, Miles but it's no use behind a pay wall. Any chance to get the whole pdf?
From The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology
Volume 26, Issue 5, 2015??
Thanks.
elfismiles » 10 Jun 2016 16:29 wrote:
PDF of the below...
https://www.gangstalking.eu/encyclopedi ... alking.pdfThe Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology
Volume 26, Issue 5, 2015
Complaints of group-stalking (‘gang-stalking’): an exploratory study of their nature and impact on complainants
DOI:
10.1080/14789949.2015.1054857
Lorraine P. Sheridana & David V. Jamesb*
pages 601-623
Received: 16 Dec 2014
Accepted: 6 May 2015
Published online: 16 Jun 2015
Abstract
Stalking primarily concerns the actions of individuals. However, some victims report stalking by organised groups, this being known as ‘group-’ or ‘gang-stalking’. This phenomenon has not been subject to systematic study. An anonymous questionnaire was completed online by self-defined victims of stalking. One thousand and forty respondents met research definitions for stalking, of which 128 (12.3%) reported group-stalking. One hundred and twenty-eight individually stalked cases were randomly selected as a comparison group. All cases of reported group-stalking were found likely to be delusional, compared with 3.9% of individually stalked cases. There were highly significant differences between the two groups on most parameters examined. The group-stalked scored more highly on depressive symptoms, post-traumatic symptomatology and adverse impact on social and occupational functioning. Group-stalking appears to be delusional in basis, but complainants suffer marked psychological and practical sequelae. This is important in assessment of risk in stalking cases, early referral to psychiatric services and allocation of police resources.
Full text HTML
Keywords
stalking, group-stalking, gang-stalking, victims, delusions, post-traumatic disorders
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1 ... 15.1054857
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