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Aliens’ Paranoid Reaction

Journal of Mental Science, 1951
Psychotic states due mainly, but not exclusively, to unusual external circumstances are well known, and are commonly exemplified by such mental disorders as are occasionally met with in persons in prison, or those morbidly homesick, or suffering under the strain and stress of advanced deafness.
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Paranoid thinking as a heuristic

Early Intervention in Psychiatry, 2010
AbstractParanoid thinking can be viewed as a human heuristic used by individuals to deal with uncertainty during stressful situations. Under stress, individuals are likely to emphasize the threatening value of neutral stimuli and increase the reliance on paranoia‐based heuristic to interpreter events and guide their decisions.
Preti A., Cella M.
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Body Build of Paranoid and Non-Paranoid Schizophrenic Males

British Journal of Psychiatry, 1971
The paranoid—non-paranoid distinction among schizophrenics may be useful and meaningful (14): certain psychological and physiological responses have been shown to distinguish patients of these subgroups (5, 12, 16) and biochemical (2, 5) and morphological (7, 9, 17) differences have also been demonstrated.
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The Paranoid Personality

Postgraduate Medicine, 1974
Viewing the world about him as hostile and menacing, the paranoid individual uses characteristic traits to cope with that world and avoid a retreat into fantasy. On initial contact, the physician must be alert to the ways this patient reveals himself and subsequently must tactfully establish rapport to facilitate treatment.
R, Noyes, J, Clancy, T A, Travis
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The distinction between paranoid and non‐paranoid forms of schizophrenia

British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1981
The distinction between paranoid and non‐paranoid forms of schizophrenia is discussed. The different methods of making the distinctions are examined as well as some of the different variables to which it has been applied. It is suggested that the grounds on which the distinction is made are often questionable and that there is a case for saying that ...
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Paranoid-Depressive Relationships

Canadian Psychiatric Association Journal, 1973
Recent theories have ascribed the development of paranoid disorders to the use of denial and defensive projection of blame in some patients who have underlying feelings of poor self-esteem and inadequacy. The author proposes that the failure of other significant people in the patient's environment to provide the help he believes he needs accounts for ...
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[Paranoid syndrome, paranoid reaction, paranoia].

Casopis lekaru ceskych, 2006
The term paranoid is derived from the Greek word paranoia meaning nadnese. It does not only mean self-reference, but there are various personality features as they are hostility, a tendency towards aggressiveness, irritability, a lack of sense of humour, feelings of overestimation of one-self and a tendency towards accusations.
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[Delusional psychopathology of the paranoid stage of paranoid schizophrenia].

Zhurnal nevropatologii i psikhiatrii imeni S.S. Korsakova (Moscow, Russia : 1952), 1980
The psychopathological traits of paranoial delusions were studied in 65 patients with paranoial schizophrenia. Of these patients, 16 had hypochondriacal delusions, 13 delusions of jealousy and 36 delusions of reference and persecution. All cases were studied from the standpoint of structural-dynamic aspects of the development of systematized ...
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Clinical and perceptual characteristics of paranoids and paranoid schizophrenics

Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1975
R E, Tarter, R N, Perley
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INCENTIVES WITH PARANOID AND NON‐PARANOID SCHIZOPHRENICS IN A WORKSHOP

British Journal of Medical Psychology, 1959
N, O'CONNOR, K, RAWNSLEY
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