Abstract: Many years ago, in the Introduction to a co-edited book, my colleagues and I wrote: «We need to differentiate between a paranoia that is the result of ill-conceived thinking […] and a paranoia which is the result of processes going on outside of one’s mind and control […] Although the term “persecution complex” is almost synonymous with paranoia, there is a definite sense in which one can be persecuted without being paranoid» (Berke, Pierides, Sabbadini, Schneider 1998, p.3). The title of our book is Even Paranoids Have Enemies.