Schizophrenia - paranoid type

• Alternative Names

  Paranoid schizophrenia

• Symptoms

  People with paranoid schizophrenia may have over-the-top (grandiose) mistaken beliefs (delusions) about protecting themselves from the plot that they think is against them.

  Other symptoms include:

  • Feeling tense, suspicious, guarded, and reserved
  • "Hearing things" (auditory hallucinations)

  Paranoid schizophrenia usually does not involve the disorganized speech and behavior that is seen in other types of schizophrenia.

• References

  Addington D, Bouchard RH, Goldberg J, Honer B, Malla A, Norman R, Tempier R. Clinical practice guidelines: treatment of schizophrenia. Can J Psychiatry. 2005;50:7s-57s.

  International early psychosis association writing group. International clinical practice guidelines for early psychosis. Br J Psychiatry. 2005;187:s120-s124.

Review Date: 2/6/2008

Reviewed By: Christos Ballas, MD, Attending Psychiatrist, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.