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paranoid schizophrenia ThesaurusNoun | 1. | paranoid schizophrenia - a form of schizophrenia characterized by delusions (of persecution or 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 mannerparanoic type schizophrenia, paraphrenia, paraphrenic schizophreniadementia praecox, schizophrenia, schizophrenic disorder, schizophrenic psychosis - any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact |
paranoid schizophrenia
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. paranoid schizophrenia
par·a·noid schiz·o·phre·ni·aschizophrenia characterized predominantly by delusions of persecution and megalomania.paranoid schizophrenia DSM 295.30 Psychiatry A type of schizophrenia associated with feelings of being persecuted or plotted against. Affected individuals may have grandiose delusions associated with protecting themselves from the perceived plot. See 287 in DSM-IV. See Paranoid personality disorder, Schizophrenia. par·a·noid schiz·o·phre·ni·a (par'ă-noyd skits'ō-frē'nē-ă) A form of that mental disorder characterized predominantly by delusions of persecution and megalomania. AcronymsSeepop shotparanoid schizophrenia Related to paranoid schizophrenia: paranoia, Paranoid personality disorderSynonyms for paranoid schizophrenianoun a form of schizophrenia characterized by delusions (of persecution or grandeur or jealousy)Synonyms- paranoic type schizophrenia
- paraphrenia
- paraphrenic schizophrenia
Related Words- dementia praecox
- schizophrenia
- schizophrenic disorder
- schizophrenic psychosis
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