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Abstract
A personality disorder characterized by the avoidance of accepting deserved blame and an unwarranted view of others as malevolent. The latter is expressed as suspiciousness, hypersensitivity, and mistrust.
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- Paranoid Personality
- Personality Disorder, Paranoid
- Disorder, Paranoid Personality
- Disorders, Paranoid Personality
- Paranoid Personalities
- Paranoid Personality Disorders
- Personalities, Paranoid
- Personality Disorders, Paranoid
- Personality, Paranoid
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, virology.
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91(79); was see under PERSONALITY DISORDERS 1979-90; was PARANOID PERSONALITY see under PARANOIA 1969-78
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WM 190.5.P2
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Paranoid Personality Disorder. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D010260. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D010260
- Paranoid Personality Disorder. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoid_personality_disorder
- Paranoid Personality Disorder. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q747735