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Understanding Paranoid Personality Disorder
Dorland's Medical Dictionary --
paranoid p. (disorder) [DSM-IV] a personality disorder marked by a view of other people as hostile, devious, and untrustworthy and a combative response to disappointments or to events experienced as rebuffs or humiliations.
Notable are a questioning of the loyalty of friends, the bearing of grudges, a tendency to read threatening meanings into benign remarks, and unfounded suspicions of the fidelity of a partner.
Unlike delusional disorder or paranoid schizophrenia, in which delusional or hallucinatory persecution occurs, it is not characterized by psychosis.
http://www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns...zSzdmd_p_15zPz
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