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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.
[14] Laing also considered how "in typical paranoid ideas of reference, the person feels that the murmurings and mutterings he hears as he walks past a street crowd are about him. In a bar, a burst of laughter behind his back is at some joke cracked about him", but felt that deeper acquaintance with the patient reveals in fact that "what ...
301.1 Affective personality disorder (Include: cycloid personality, cyclothymic personality, depressive personality) 301.2 Schizoid personality disorder; 301.3 Explosive personality disorder (Include: aggressive: personality/reaction, aggressiveness, emotional instability (excessive), pathological emotionality, quarrelsomeness) 301.4 Anankastic ...
High openness is characteristic to schizotypal personality disorder (odd and fragmented thinking), narcissistic personality disorder (excessive self-valuation) and paranoid personality disorder (sensitivity to external hostility). Lack of insight (shows low openness) is characteristic to all personality disorders and could help explain the ...
Rather, it is a subcategory of narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) [2] which could also include traits of antisocial personality disorder or paranoid personality disorder. Malignant narcissists are grandiose and always ready to raise hostility levels, which undermines the families and organizations in which they are involved, and ...
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301.0 Paranoid personality disorder; 301.20 Schizoid personality disorder; 301.22 Schizotypal personality disorder; Cluster B (dramatic, emotional, or erratic): 301.7 Antisocial personality disorder; 301.83 Borderline personality disorder; 301.50 Histrionic personality disorder; 301.81 Narcissistic personality disorder; Cluster C (anxious or ...
Paranoid cognition captures the idea that dysphoric self-consciousness may be related with the position that people occupy within a social system. This self-consciousness conduces to a hypervigilant and ruminative mode to process social information that finally will stimulate a variety of paranoid-like forms of social misperception and ...