Paranoid states: A selected review

The Paranoid and the Depressive

“…And in related fashion the study of van Putten et al (1976) indicated "grandiosity to be the most powerful discriminating variable" between the discharged schizophrenics who were compliant drug takers and drug refusers . .…”

“…514-516;Tanna, 1974;Schwartz, D. A., 1963;depression-Bonime, 1976b, pp. 301-305;Kamm [1951Kamm [ , p. 1271, who writes of the "depressive or aggressive moods .…”

Extraordinary Disorders of Human Behavior

“…Fish (1960) rejected the unitary concept of late paraphrenia and viewed this group of patients as displaying much heterogeneity, with only some of the patients being schizophrenic. Tanna (1974), on the other hand, felt that a case could be made for a distinct entity of late paraphrenia, apart from schizophrenia. The majority of writers, however (Slater and Roth, 1969;Bucci, 1965; Kay and Roth, 1961), felt that late paraphrenia was the late-occurring form of schizophrenia proper.…”

Paranoid, Schizoid, and Schizotypal Personality Disorders

“…In Greek literature, paranoia was often used to describe madness in general or thinking amiss (Akhtar, 1990;Lewis, 1970;Manschreck, 1979). Various formulations through the 1700s attempted to define conditions which had exhibited some aspects of paranoia, but none received the attention that was accorded to Heinroth's (1818) conceptualization (Akhtar, 1990;Lewis, 1970;Tanna, 1974). Heinroth's description included four types of paranoia: a gross distortion of an individual's reality due to a single misconception; delusions of the supernatural; megalomania; and a mixture of cognitive, emotional, and volitional problems (Lewis, 1970).…”

“…Kahlbaum's 1863 definition of paranoia is widely regarded as resembling a modern-day conceptualization of this phenomenon (Tanna, 1974). Yet, the classification of paranoid syndromes posed a challenge for diagnosticians of the nineteenth-century.…”