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Descriptor English: Paranoid Personality Disorder
Descriptor Spanish: Trastorno de Personalidad Paranoide
Descriptor trastorno de personalidad paranoide
Scope note: Trastorno de la personalidad caracterizado por la evitación de la culpa merecida y visión injustificada de los demás como malévolos. Esto último se expresa como suspicacia, hipersensibilidad y desconfianza.
Descriptor Portuguese: Transtorno da Personalidade Paranoide
Descriptor French: Trouble de la personnalité de type paranoïaque
Entry term(s): Disorder, Paranoid Personality
Disorders, Paranoid Personality
Paranoid Personalities
Paranoid Personality
Paranoid Personality Disorders
Personalities, Paranoid
Personality Disorder, Paranoid
Personality Disorders, Paranoid
Personality, Paranoid
Tree number(s): F03.675.600
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D010260
Scope note: 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.
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
SU surgery
TH therapy
UR urine
VI virology
Public MeSH Note: 91; was see under PERSONALITY DISORDERS 1979-90; was PARANOID PERSONALITY see under PARANOIA 1969-78
Online Note: use PARANOID PERSONALITY DISORDER to search PARANOID PERSONALITY 1975-79; use PARANOID DISORDERS 1969-74
History Note: 91(79); was see under PERSONALITY DISORDERS 1979-90; was PARANOID PERSONALITY see under PARANOIA 1969-78
Entry Version: PARANOID PERSONALITY DIS
DeCS ID: 10448
Unique ID: D010260
NLM Classification: WM 190.5.P2
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Date Established: 1991/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 1997/06/20
Paranoid Personality Disorder - Preferred
Concept UI M0015898
Scope note 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.
Preferred term Paranoid Personality Disorder
Entry term(s) Disorder, Paranoid Personality
Disorders, Paranoid Personality
Paranoid Personalities
Paranoid Personality
Paranoid Personality Disorders
Personalities, Paranoid
Personality Disorder, Paranoid
Personality Disorders, Paranoid
Personality, Paranoid



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