Noun: paranoid 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 paranoid schizophrenia, he maintained a job and social life, though he constantly feared his coworkers were plotting against him";
- paranoic type schizophrenia, paraphrenic schizophrenia, paraphrenia
Derived forms: paranoid schizophrenias
Type of: dementia praecox [archaic], schizophrenia, schizophrenic disorder, schizophrenic psychosis
Encyclopedia: Paranoid schizophrenia