BACKGROUND The 'odd' or 'Cluster A' personality disorders (PDs) - paranoid, schizoid and schizotypal PDs - were created in DSM-III with little empirical foundation. We have examined the relationship between the genetic and environmental risk factors for dimensional representations of these three personality disorders. METHOD These personality disorders were assessed using the Structured Inter...

Ages of first hospitalization were compared among 64 (VA) Veterans Administration hospital male, 60 state hospital male, and 60 state hospital female schizophrenic patients. Those who were diagnosed as paranoid were found to be approximately 8 years older than the nonparanoid patients on age of first admission. In both diagnostic categories men were hospitalized about 5 years earlier than women...

To explore whether or not patients with schizophrenia display a more profound impairment of negative emotion processing, we assessed the implicit evaluation of positive and negative emotional stimuli. Twenty patients with schizophrenia (9 paranoid, 11 non-paranoid) and 22 normal controls were instructed to classify emotional pictures according to the intrinsic valence if the pictures were black...

INTRODUCTION Theories of delusions often underplay the role of their content. With respect to persecutory delusions, taking threat as fundamental suggests that models of threat-related, aversive learning, such as the Conditioned Avoidance Response (CAR) task, might offer valid insights into the underlying normal and abnormal processes. In this study, we reappraise the psychological significance...

ix 1. REVIEW OF LITERATURE 1 Development of Schizophrenia as a Diagnostic Concept 1 Classifications Used in Research 3 Diagnostic Subclass 3 Paranoid Versus Non-Paranoid 3 Acute Versus Chronic 3 Process-Reactive Classification 4 Physiological Functioning in Schizophrenia ... 6 Studies of the Autonomic Nervous System . . 6 Functions Associated With the Reticular System 7 The Electroencephalogram...

Platelet MAO activity was estimated in 60 male drug free schizophrenics and 26 controls matched for age. The paranoid group had significantly lower enzyme activity than the non-paranoid group and controls. Patients with premorbid schizoid personality had significantly lower enzyme activity than patients with non-schizoid premorbid personality and controls. A significant negative correlation bet...

PARANOID reactions of various types are commonly found in women of late middle age or early senility. Baugh 1 described the prognosis of such cases as hopeless. He found that the patients had previously been indecisive, anxious, impressionable, touchy, scrupulous, introspective, self-satisfied and reticent before the first and final attack of insanity, and he believed that heredity was present ...

Krakowskie Studia z Historii Państwa i Prawa » Tom 14 (2021) Zeszyt 3 Evans, Richard J. The Hitler Conspiracies: Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination. Allen Lane, 2020, 288 pp. A