Paranoia Personality Disorder

Because Paranoia belong to personality disorder, is important to understand what personality disorder is. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder (DSM 5, 2013), it is characterized by repeatedly behaviors that differ noticeably from what is expected in the cultural environment of the individual; this behaviors are persistent, steady over the time, inflexible and tend to lead to distress or impairment, as well. Usually, personality disorder start while the person in an adolescent or an early adult. Paranoia belong to the cluster A, which mean that paranoiac person tend to be odd and eccentric. If paranoia belong to personality disorder is redundant to say that paranoiac people present the same characteristic formerly mention. Besides to the characteristic that personality disorder share with paranoia, the DSM 5 establish specific symptoms, which a paranoiac must show up in other to be diagnosed with paranoia personality disorder. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM 5, 2013), Paranoia is a psychological disorder characterized by a constant of doubting and suspecting that the means of others’ behaviors is harm the paranoiac person. This doubt and suspicious may be show up in seven different context, but the DSM 5 criteria only require that the person present for the least four of this symptoms at the same time to be diagnosed as suffering of paranoia personality disorder. The variety of context where the doubt and suspicious can be present are the follows: even though the individual lack of enough basis to doubt, s/she suspects that others are hurting, cheating or taking advantage of his or her. The fidelity or honesty of people around of the paranoiac person preoc...

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...them is shocked, the shocked animal will attack its neighbor (Ulrich & Azrin, 1962; Ulrich, Hutchinson, & Azrin, 1965). This is so even though the other animal had nothing to do with the attacker’s pain. Shocked animals will even attack much larger neighbors: A mouse will attack a rat, a rat will attack a cat. If no other animal is available, shocked animals will attack inanimate objects. If no suitable object is available, a rat will work to obtain an object to bite” (221).
Because aggression is not necessary directed to the punisher, paranoiac people attack others because they had been assaulted by a third party. Kantor (2004) affirms that children who had been have excessively critical parents may become a paranoiac adult. The DSM 5 (2013) states that one feature of paranoiac people is being critical to others even though they have difficultly admitting criticism.