Even Paranoids Have Enemies comprises theoretical, political and clinical essays which discuss and elucidate the complex relationship between paranoia and persecution. The politics of the Middle East, the pressures within Japanese society, the dynamics of the drug scene and the effects of mechanical thinking in individuals and cultures are some of the case studies used to illustrate the ways in which paranoia and persecution are experienced at the individual, institutional and macrosocial level.

Contributors include Robert Jay Lifton, David Edgar, Calvin C. Hernton, and Hisako Watanabe.