In its extreme form the paranoicis rare just as is the extremely trusting person of saintly type.
Of an inordinate and growing ego, the paranoic of a pathological trend develops the idea or delusion of persecution.
In one of the divisional field hospitals Gerver examined a patient with a very vivid paranoic condition.
For nine months he showed a variety of symptoms apparently consistent with the diagnosis hysteria, but then developed catatonic and paranoic symptoms clearly warranting the diagnosis dementia praecox.
No one who has ever argued with a paranoic will forget how keen a sense of reality he may retain, how logical his arguments are, and how reasonable his delusions appear, if only some one point be granted.
Nor is the paranoic who chooses to put his interpretation on the surliness of his employer as far estranged from reality as the praecox who recognizes his employer in the person of the physician.
The clinical group of psychoses included under the designation paranoicconditions is far from being homogeneous.
It was a paranoicwith delusions of money, grandeur and a strongly developed homicidal mania.
He was a paranoic with a strongly developed homicidal mania.
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