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paranoid schizophrenia
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paranoid schizophrenia [′par·ə‚nȯid ‚skit·sə′frē·nē·ə]
(psychology)
A form of schizophrenia in which delusions of persecution or grandeur (or both), hallucinations, and ideas of reference predominate and sometimes are systematized.


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Emil Kraepelin, Dementia Praecox and Paraphrenia (Bristol, England, 2002), p.
The reason he needs defending is the stark diagnostic probability offered by Rowell: Artaud (1896-1948) "suffered from confabulatory paraphrenia, a delusional psychosis which is not accompanied by intellectual deterioration and in which some symptoms - hallucinations and confabulations - are close to those of schizophrenia.
Dementia praecox and paraphrenia (Originally published 1919).
 
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