Paranoia Agent and Learned Helplessness

As someone studying Psychology and Philosophy in college, it wasn’t hard to link Satoshi Kon’s Paranoia Agent to Seligman’s original Learned Helplessness theory. That learned helplessness, and the cure to that mind set is actually stated quite beautifully in the show, and the anime shows why we should fight that mentality. Twitter: Citations; Seligman, M. E. P. (1972). Learned helplessness. Annual Review of Medicine. 23 (1): 407–412. Seligman, M. E. P. (1975). Helplessness: On Depression, Development, and Death. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman. Klein, D. C., Fencil-Morse, E., & Seligman, M. E. (1976). Learned helplessness, depression, and the attribution of failure. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 33(5), 508-516. First Song Featured;