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paraphrenia

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Noun1.paraphrenia - 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 manner
paranoic type schizophrenia, paranoid schizophrenia, paraphrenic schizophrenia
dementia 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
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Emil Kraepelin, Dementia Praecox and Paraphrenia (Bristol, England, 2002), p.
Secrets of the Soul: A Social and Cultural History of Psychoanalysis by Decker, Hannah S. / Journal of Social History
The reason he needs defending is the stark diagnostic probability offered by Rowell: Artaud (1896-1948) "suffered from confabulatory paraphrenia, a delusional psychosis which is not accompanied by intellectual deterioration and in which some symptoms - hallucinations and confabulations - are close to those of schizophrenia.
"Antonin Artaud: works on paper." (insane artist) by Kuspit, Donald / Artforum International
Dementia praecox and paraphrenia (Originally published 1919).
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