Persecution complex
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A persecution complex is a belief and psychological condition by which an individual or a group believes that, whenever that entity faces adversity, it must be because of symptoms beyond their control, or the hatred of their enemies. For example, someone suffering from a persecution complex will ascribe their individual failures to censorship rather than an individual problem.
According to Roger Gould, M.D., "Sometimes it is an exaggeration of a real situation and at other times it is totally ungrounded in reality, a product of the person's inner life projection onto the world . That is when it is called paranoia." [1]