Author — A.P. Egides. The book «How to understand people, or the Psychological drawing of personality»
Paranoid, as a rule, do not change their views. These are complete individuals. They generally have a consistent value hierarchy, at least for a long time. They rarely revise their views and behave consistently at any given moment. This hyperthym can fall into a rage because of the injustice that he faced this very second, and a minute later, stroking his stomach, he can drink with the one who committed the injustice.
But paranoid individuals can also have sharp swings in value orientations. Stalin was a seminarian and became such a militant atheist that he destroyed the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. I have often seen atheists become zealous preachers of one religion or another. This is probably due to a too pronounced psycho-protective position, with failure in the previous field: some movement rejected him as a leader.
Caius Marcius Coriolanus, a Roman general who considered Rome, like all Romans, the center of the universe, was suddenly expelled from the Eternal City. And now he utters the famous phrase: “There is life outside these walls” (Shakespeare). And then he went to Rome at the head of hostile tribes.
Training
The paranoid learns unevenly, jerkily, with varying degrees of success. Ratings: a mixture of threes, fours, fives and … twos. Often studies according to an individual curriculum, skips over the course — in accordance with abilities, of course. Can study at once in two high schools, at two faculties.
His creativity begins with a student or even from school. Even then, he sets a goal and tries to achieve it. And he can neglect some subjects, although he still passes them or (if a deuce) retakes them so that they are not expelled from the university, at least for a C grade, here he is not proud. But other subjects or sections of the textbook seem important to him, he digs deeper into them, gets additional literature, buys books from second-hand booksellers, sits in libraries. He gets the truth in disputes with friends in the smoking rooms of the same libraries, student dormitories over a can of beer, etc.