"Paranoiac" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... hysterical conditions (not usually on hereditary basis) are fairly common, and neurasthenia of high degree decidedly frequent, but though stages of depression are common he had never seen pure melancholia and very seldom mania, but paranoiac delusional ideas frequently, and he agreed with Bryan of Broadmoor that religious delusions are not uncommon. General paralysis occurs, but is comparatively rare, and the same may be said of dementia praecox. On the whole, although Hirschfeld was ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis
... everywhere. He imitated the pious as he chattered without aim. The man had lived himself into the role of a cloister brother so completely that he was not clearly conscious of the deceit. The author thinks the case presents some paranoiac features with a pathological tendency towards lying. Thus this pathological liar presents the phenomenon of a mixture ...
— Pathology of Lying, Etc. • William and Mary Healy |
