paranoid personality disorder
mental disorder characterized by paranoia and a pervasive, long-standing suspiciousness and generalized mistrust of others
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Summary
paranoid personality disorder is a class of disease[1]. It draws 8,327 Wikipedia views per month (class of disease category, ranking #276 of 1,968).[2]
Key Facts
- Instance of: mental disorder[3]
- Subclass of: personality disorder[4], cluster A personality disorders[5], disease[6]
- Commons category: Paranoid personality disorder[7]
- Symptoms and signs: paranoia[8]
- Possible treatment: psychotherapy[9]
- ICD-9-CM: 301.0[10]
- NCI Thesaurus ID: C92630[11]
- Short name: PPD[12]
- Different from: paranoid schizophrenia[13]
- Health specialty: psychiatry[14], psychology[15], clinical psychology[16]
- Studied by: psychiatry[17], clinical psychology[18]
- Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_10938[19], http://identifiers.org/doid/DOID:10938[20]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Medicine[21], WikiProject Psychiatry[22], WikiProject Psychology[23]
Why It Matters
paranoid personality disorder has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] It is known by 72 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]