paranoid personality disorder

Also known as expansive paranoid personality, expansive paranoid personality disorder, fanatic personality, fanatic personality disorder, querulant personality, querulant personality disorder, paranoid personality, sensitive paranoid personality

Key facts

Specialty: Psychiatry , clinical psychology
Symptoms: Paranoia , pervasive suspiciousness, generalized mistrust of others, hypersensitivity, scanning of environments for clues or suggestions that may validate fears or biases
Risk factors: Adverse childhood experiences , possibly social stress
Differential diagnosis: Delusional disorder , schizophrenia ; a bipolar or depressive disorder with psychotic symptoms; schizotypal , schizoid , borderline , histrionic , narcissistic , and avoidant personality disorders
Frequency: Estimated between 0.5% and 2.5% of the general population

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Research

1,669 papers

Paranoid personality disorder.Journal of personality disorders · 2013
[Paranoid personality disorder].La Revue du praticien · 2023
Changes of intuition in paranoid personality disorder.

Article

Paranoid personality disorder (PPD) is a personality disorder characterized by paranoia, and a pervasive, long-standing suspiciousness and generalized mistrust of others.

Outlined in the main chapter on personality disorders in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), paranoid personality disorder is not specifically included in the Alternative DSM-5 Model for Personality Disorders (AMPD), nor in the eleventh revision (ICD-11) of the International Classification of Diseases; the latter two instead classify it in accordance with a dimensional approach to personality disorders.