Noun: paranoic type schizophrenia
- A form of schizophrenia characterized by delusions (of persecution, grandeur or jealousy); symptoms may include anger and anxiety and aloofness and doubts about gender identity; unlike other types of schizophrenia the patients are usually presentable and (if delusions are not acted on) may function in an apparently normal manner
"Despite his paranoic type schizophrenia, he maintained a job and social life, though he constantly feared his coworkers were plotting against him";
- paranoid schizophrenia, paraphrenic schizophrenia, paraphrenia
Type of: dementia praecox [archaic], schizophrenia, schizophrenic disorder, schizophrenic psychosis