Paranoid Personality Disorder Paranoid personality disorder is a psychiatric diagnosis characterized by paranoia and a pervasive, long-standing suspiciousness and generalized mistrust of others. Those with the condition are hypersensitive, are easily slighted, and habitually relate to the world by vigilant scanning of the environment for clues or suggestions to validate their prejudicial ideas or biases. Paranoid individuals are eager observers. They think they are in danger and look for signs and threats of that danger, disregarding any facts. They tend to be guarded and suspicious and have quite constricted emotional lives. Their incapacity for meaningful emotional involvement and the general pattern of isolated withdrawal often lend a quality of schizoid isolation to their life experience.

The History of Personality Disorders

by Sam Vaknin | Feb 19, 2009 | Antisocial Personality Disorder, Avoidant Personality Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, Dependent Personality Disorder, Expired, Histrionic Personality Disorder, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder, Other Personality Disorders, Paranoid Personality Disorder, Personality Disorders, Schizoid Personality Disorder, Schizotypal Personality Disorder | 0 |

Well into the eighteenth century, the only types of mental illness – then collectively known as...

Personality Disorders and Relating

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Personality Disorders and Intimacy are Incongruous Those with personality disorders mask their...

What Is Paranoid Personality Disorder?

by Derek Wood, RN, BC, MS | Feb 2, 2009 | Expired, Paranoid Personality Disorder, Personality Disorders | 0 |

The person with a Paranoid Personality Disorder essentially has an ongoing, unbased suspiciousness and distrust of people. Along with this, they are emotionally detached. In order to have this diagnosis, the person would have to...

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