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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.
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Dementia praecox and paraphrenia (Originally published 1919).
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