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Paraphrenia

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Paraphrenia 

a mental disorder manifested by systematized delusions of grandeur and persecution, hallucinations, and sensations of powerful external influences. It usually develops in adulthood and has a chronic, long-term course that leads to terminal dementia. Paraphrenia is regarded in modern psychiatry as one of the syndromes of schizophrenia and certain other mental diseases.



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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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