[Paranoid personality disorder and criminal offense].

CONCLUSION: We conducted a retrospective study on 106 subjects with paranoid personality disorder, including 27 subjects with associated paranoid delusional disorder. The comparison of the two groups demonstrated significant differences in offenses. Verbal and physical but non-sexual violence, committed in a delusional logic, was found among delusional subjects, while the forms of violence were more multiform in the single paranoid personality disorder group, frequently including sexual violence. This is, as far as we know, the first study describing the medico-legal acting-out of paranoid personalities. These results, which will need to be confirmed by future studies, point out the importance of the criminological risk that may be associated with paranoid personality disorder, without any associated delusional disorder. PMID: 30309614 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: L Encephale - Category: Psychiatry Tags: Encephale Source Type: research