Word: paranoiacs
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...fear that I shall never forget that face, but I don't see why you should cater to the engaging muripictor's* histrionic bent. I like TIME, but I don't care for that paranoiac pan which mops and mows at me from your weekly pages...
...snobs. [Hess's flight] was merely a return to normality . . . a desire to escape from the asylum [Germany] in which he has so long been confined. . . . . His activities must be considered as those of a perfectly sane man." > Dr. Gregory Zilboorg of Manhattan: "Hess may have a megalomanic-paranoiac trend. Hess's profound devotion to Hitler over so many years was semi-pathologic and he may have been suffering from a homosexual panic when he ran away. He may be a pathologic person but not necessarily crazy." > Dr. Leo Alexander of Boston: "Hess may be a constitutionally paranoid...
...delusions among psychotics are that their food is poisoned, that they are pregnant, that they are hundreds of years old or only a few months old, that they can converse with people miles away, that they are dead. Generally speaking, hallucinations are prominent in schizophrenia, delusions in paranoia. A paranoiac may imagine that he is being pursued by 500 enemies in a fleet of green taxicabs, but he does not imagine that he sees them...
...scores of schools, and 600 Dukhobors were imprisoned for refusing to send their children to school. More clothes were shed. The Dominion thought of putting the unassimilable Russians on a reservation, like an Indian tribe. The leadership succeeded upon Peter's son, Peter Petrovich Verigin, a Rasputin-like paranoiac whose mismanagement and personal vices helped ruin the Dukhobor's communal enterprises. The sect disintegrated during the 19305, but in western Canada there are still 17,000 Russians, confused and distrustful of everything...
Most psychiatrists' reports are woven around the tortured braggings of a paranoiac, the sullen stupors of a schizophrenic. Few ever bother with such broader problems as the relation of insanity to unemployment, to age, to sex, to alcohol. And no one has seriously answered the crucial questions: Is insanity in the U. S. increasing...