this report presents a 52-year-old woman who was admitted to nephrology ward with hypernatremia. she shared a persecutory delusion of poisoning with her 22-year-old daughter and did not feed her 8-year-old son due to her delusion. keywords: shared paranoid disorder, delusions, schizophrenia, paranoid.

Objective The aim of this investigation was to evaluate defence mechanisms and attachment styles in paranoid ideation through a cross-sectional design with sequential recruitment of subjects. Methods Five hundred and fifty non-clinical subjects were recruited from university students. A psychometric protocol comprising paranoid ideation scale of Symptoms Check List (SCL-90-R-Par) to identify ...

Apart from the illness per se, the antiTB drugs are also known to cause wide ranging psychiatric disorders. Isoniazid, ethionamide and cycloserine are known to cause psychiatric side-effects (Paterson, 1980). Psychotic reactions were frequently reported and were attributed commonly to isonizaid (Pleasure, H, 1954; Wiedorn and Erwin 1954). The psychotic manifestations were those of depressive, m...

The relevance of the study lies in fact that transience changes social surrounding requires dynamism and competitiveness from a person, which forces individual to actively transform emotional regulation behaviour, particular communication relationships. However, adaptive capabilities person who is characterised by increased sensitivity frustration persistent distrust others can be considerably ...

In a Study Of 90 patients of Alcoholic Hallucinosis and 30 patients of Paranoid Schizophrenia, it was found that delusions, delusions of infidelity, third person and running commentary auditory hallucinations and insight were not different in the two groups.Delusions of grandeur, passivity, thought echo and thought broadcast were significantly more frequent in paranoid schizophrenic patients. A...

A psychological profile was developed on North Korean leader Kim Jong-il based on a South Korean psychiatrist’s evaluation of 14 personality disorders in DSMIV-TR and of schizophrenic and psychotic symptoms. The psychiatrist, considered an expert on Kim Jong-il’s behavior, completed the informant version of the standardized, DSM-IV-TR aligned, 225-item Coolidge Axis II Inventory (CATI). The res...

The authors' objective was to examine the presence of Axis I and II psychiatric disorders among adult males and females with a history in childhood and/or adolescence of conduct disorder (CD). Data were derived from a large national sample of the U.S. population. Face-to-face interviews of more than 34,000 adults ages 18 years and older were conducted during 2004-2005 using the Alcohol Use Diso...

BACKGROUND Research suggested that negative affective-laden sounds act as environmental stressors that elicit negative affect (Bradley and Lang, 2000a). AIMS We tried to test for the role of an interaction between predisposition to hallucinatory experiences and exposure to negative affective laden sounds for the presence of paranoid ideation. METHOD We used an experimental design that follo...