This paper is to reveal the relation between the epic of <people who don't know a mirror> and paranoid personality disorder. I assume that the fact of not recognizing one's own face should be pathological problem. People who suffer from paranoid personality disorder show mistrust and anxiety. I expect that people who don't recognize their own faces from <people who don't know a mirror> can be related to paranoid personality disorder. The epic of <people who don't know a mirror> from 『An Outline of Korean Folklore Literature』is related to the epic of mistrust and anxiety. The wife from <people who don't know a mirror> distrusts her husband. She is in fear of being abandoned. She has a doubt that her husband has an affair, so she might lose him. After searching the epic of <people who don't know a mirror>, I found some peculiarity of people's behave. When you have doubts about your lover, so you are in anxiety, it's hard to think logically. You keep digging for clues expecting that you would prove the unknown truth. It becomes really impossible to make a sense out of you. You cannot be persuaded. These all symptoms are related to paranoid personality disorder. Not every version of <people who don't know a mirror> from 『An Outline of Korean Folklore Literature』is all about symptoms. There are some versions show the solution. Separation for a specified period, self-examination, and recovery of distrust can be the way of solving the problem. In the scene of literary therapy practice, the epic of <people who don't know a mirror> can be used for the treatment of paranoid personality disorder.

This paper is to reveal the relation between the epic of <people who don't know a mirror> and paranoid personality disorder. I assume that the fact of not recognizing one's own face should be pathological problem. People who suffer from paranoid personality disorder show mistrust and anxiety. I expect that people who don't recognize their own faces from <people who don't know a mirror> can be related to paranoid personality disorder. The epic of <people who don't know a mirror> from 『An Outline of Korean Folklore Literature』is related to the epic of mistrust and anxiety. The wife from <people who don't know a mirror> distrusts her husband. She is in fear of being abandoned. She has a doubt that her husband has an affair, so she might lose him. After searching the epic of <people who don't know a mirror>, I found some peculiarity of people's behave. When you have doubts about your lover, so you are in anxiety, it's hard to think logically. You keep digging for clues expecting that you would prove the unknown truth. It becomes really impossible to make a sense out of you. You cannot be persuaded. These all symptoms are related to paranoid personality disorder. Not every version of <people who don't know a mirror> from 『An Outline of Korean Folklore Literature』is all about symptoms. There are some versions show the solution. Separation for a specified period, self-examination, and recovery of distrust can be the way of solving the problem. In the scene of literary therapy practice, the epic of <people who don't know a mirror> can be used for the treatment of paranoid personality disorder.

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people who don't know a mirror, paranoid personality disorder, mistrust, anxiety, literary therapy, literary therapy practice