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Definition of Paranoiacs
1. paranoiac [n] - See also: paranoiac
Lexicographical Neighbors of Paranoiacs
Literary usage of Paranoiacs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mind and Its Disorders: A Text-book for Students and Practitioners by William Henry Butter Stoddart (1908)
"paranoiacs are the most dangerous patients with whom we have to deal. Yet there
is a class of so-called ' resigned paranoiacs ' who accept the situation of ..."
2. Text-book of Psychiatry: A Psychological Study of Insanity for Practitioners by Emanuel Mendel (1907)
"The actions of paranoiacs show, in a series of cases, nothing striking, so that
they are able to carry on their business in a regular way and only betray ..."
3. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1912)
"In the progressive paralytics there is no conflict between the illusions of
greatness and willingness to perform even menial work, but in paranoiacs, ..."
4. In Sickness and in Health: A Manual of Domestic Medicine and Surgery by James West Roosevelt (1896)
"paranoiacs often have considerable talent, or even genius. I have several
autobiographies of paranoiacs in manuscript form which evince literary ability of ..."
5. The Unsound Mind and the Law: A Presentation of Forensic Psychiatry by George W. Jacoby (1918)
"In some paranoiacs the delusion of grandeur has a dominating erotic character;
... Such paranoiacs often persecute their supposed affinities with insistent ..."
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