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Paranoid personality disorder (PPD) is a mental disorder characterized by paranoia, and a pervasive, long-standing suspiciousness and generalized mistrust of others. People with this personality disorder may be hypersensitive, easily insulted, and habitually relate to the world by vigilant scanning of the environment for clues or suggestions that may validate their fears or biases.
Paranoid personality disorder: Inconclusive In clinical samples men have higher rates, whereas epidemiologically there is a reported higher rate of women [95] although due the controversy of paranoid personality disorder the usefulness of these results is disputed [87] [96] Schizoid personality disorder: Male About 10% more common in males [97]
Lukin spent two weeks in the local psychiatric hospital, which recommended that he be subjected to further evaluation for possible "paranoid personality disorder" at a specialized hospital in Moscow. [35] The doctors of the Independent Psychiatric Association who examined Lukin found him mentally healthy. [35]
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Gustl Ferdinand Mollath (born 7 November 1956) is a German man who was acquitted during a criminal trial in 2006 on the basis of diminished criminal responsibility.He was committed to a high-security psychiatric hospital, as the court deemed him a danger to the public and declared him insane based on expert diagnoses of paranoid personality disorder. [1]
The "anti-Soviet" political behavior of some individuals – being outspoken in their opposition to the authorities, demonstrating for reform, and writing critical books – were defined simultaneously as criminal acts (e.g., a violation of Articles 70 or 190–1), symptoms of mental illness (e.g., "delusion of reformism"), and susceptible to a ready-made diagnosis (e.g., "sluggish ...
Malignant narcissism is not a diagnostic category defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders . Rather, it is a subcategory of narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) [2] which could also include traits of antisocial personality disorder or paranoid personality disorder.
Employed as an adjective, paranoid has become attached to a diverse set of presentations, from paranoid schizophrenia, through paranoid depression, to paranoid personality—not to mention a motley collection of paranoid 'psychoses', 'reactions', and 'states'—and this is to restrict discussion to functional disorders.