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Paranoid schizophrenia

...also called schizophrenia, paranoid type is a sub-type of schizophrenia as defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, DSM-IV code 295.30. It is the most common type of schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is defined as "a chronic mental illness in which a person loses touch with reality (psychosis)”