paranoid personality

collocation in English

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paranoid
adjective
uk
/ˈpær.ən.ɔɪd/us
/ˈper.ə.nɔɪd/
feeling extremely nervous and worried because you believe that other people do not like you or are trying to ...
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personality
noun
uk
/ˌpɜː.sənˈæl.ə.ti/us
/ˌpɝː.sənˈæl.ə.t̬i/
the type of person you are, shown by the way you behave, feel, ...
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Not surprisingly therefore,paranoidpersonalitytraits and social isolation are frequent premorbid characteristics of elderly patients who develop late paraphrenia.
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This enables us to identify individuals who, as adults, have developed schizophrenia-spectrum disorders (including schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, and schizotypal andparanoidpersonalitydisorders).
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The schizophrenia spectrum is considered here to include schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, schizotypal personality disorder, andparanoidpersonalitydisorder.
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Spectrum disorders included schizoaffective disorder, delusional disorder, bipolar disorder, psychotic depression and the schizotypal andparanoidpersonalitydisorders.
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Given the high degree of distrust, it is somewhat puzzling thatparanoidpersonalitydisorder was not also associated with a negative other-model.
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Severe depressive symptoms, with and withoutparanoidpersonalitydisorder, were also marked during pregnancy for many women in our sample.
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Ambiguity also characterizes the differentiation of schizotypal personality disorder from both schizophrenia andparanoidpersonalitydisorder, but there were no cases in this series that raised these particular diagnostic problems.
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High openness is characteristic to schizotypal personality disorder (odd and fragmented thinking), narcissistic personality disorder (excessive self-valuation) andparanoidpersonalitydisorder (sensitivity to external hostility).
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Pimozide has been used in the treatment of delusional disorder andparanoidpersonalitydisorder.
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To a lesser extent, it can be a hallmark ofparanoidpersonalitydisorder.
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Possibly the best example of the role of "ide fixe" in an insanity defense today is its use in identifying theparanoidpersonalitydisorder.
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In the 1980s,paranoidpersonalitydisorder received little attention, and when it did receive it, the focus was on its potential relationship to paranoid schizophrenia.
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Such behaviour is by psychiatrists labeled as "paranoid schizophrenia" or in milder forms as "paranoidpersonalitydisorder".
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In 1921, he renamed the conditionparanoidpersonalityand described these individuals as distrustful, feeling unjustly treated and feeling subjected to hostility, interference and oppression.
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This fact may present a problem to aparanoidpersonalitywho suspects that others are monitoring his or her calls.
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In addition to his hysterical make-up he probably had the persistence of aparanoidpersonalitysince he was able to play his role so imperturbably.
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One mental health professional diagnosed him as having schizophreniform disorder and another said he hadparanoidpersonalitydisorder with psychotic delusions.
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Kraepelin also described three paranoid (meaning then delusional) disorders, resembling later concepts of schizophrenia, delusional disorder andparanoidpersonalitydisorder.
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Violence is also associated with many conditions such as acute intoxication, acute psychosisparanoidpersonalitydisorder, antisocial personality disorder, narcissistic personality disorder, and borderline personality disorder.
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Kraepelin also noted that paranoid personalities were often present in individuals who later developed paranoid psychoses.
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