paranoid-personality disorder

plural paranoid-personality disorders

1. alternativeuncountableusuallyAlternative form of paranoid personality disorder.

   [Eugene] Maurer cited defense psychiatrists’ diagnoses that [Roland] Daniels was suffering from a paranoid-personality disorder and post-traumatic stress syndrome caused by his brother’s death.

   1988 March 25, Mack Reed, “Verdict of guilty but mentally ill passes test”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, volume 318, number 85, Philadelphia, Pa., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 14-B, column 5

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   “You know a lot about Bradley Chandler,” [Thomas T.] Merrigan told the jury. “You know that guns were his hobby … there was no premeditation, that he had a paranoid-personality disorder, post-traumatic-stress disorder. You know that guns were not part of the plan, that Bradley was illusional, irrational, crazy thinking.”

   1987 June 18, Lyndsey Layton, “Jury weighs insanity issue in Chandler murder trial”, in The Recorder, 195th year, number 143, Greenfield, Mass., →OCLC, page 1, column 5

   Formal charges against [Marlene] Flor were contained in a July 14 letter informing her a DOE-paid psychiatrist concluded she had “a paranoid-personality disorder,” leaving her ineligible for a security clearance.

   1992 September 3, John Fleck, “Worker Calls DOE Action Retaliatory: Whistleblower Group Backs Her on Clearance”, in Albuquerque Journal, 112th year, number 247, Albuquerque, N.M.: Journal Publishing Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, section E, page 1, column 1

   The only crime here is that a genuinely fragile human being, a police officer unable to work as one because of a severe clinical depression and paranoid-personality disorder, as well as a back problem, is being punished by the system in having to deal with an unjustified, unnecessary and retaliatory criminal investigation.

   1996 January 24, Milan Rada, “Disability Takes Many Forms”, in Newsday, Nassau edition, volume 56, number 143, New York, N.Y.: Newsday Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page A39, column 3

   [Gerald] Pascale suffered from a major depression with psychosis, from substance abuse problems and auditory hallucinations, [Daniel P.] Greenfield said. He displayed a fear of leaving familiar places and paranoid-personality disorder, Greenfield said.

   1997 May 13, Carol Gorga Williams, “Killer says he meant to scare ex-lover”, in Asbury Park Press, Asbury Park, N.J., →OCLC, page B4, column 1

   If [Scott] Woodring has a level of distrust to the point of a paranoid-personality disorder, he would prove extremely difficult—and obviously, dangerous—for police to deal with, said John Hulsing, a retired state police lieutenant and psychologist who has studied state prisoners.

   2003 July 13, John Agar, “Standoffs turn more dangerous”, in Sunday Chronicle, Muskegon, Mich., →OCLC, page 4A, column 3