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A Q Gardiner

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Paranoid states of middle life. Familial occurrence and relationship to schizophrenia.

Paranoid states beginning in middle life were selected from a case register. A search among the sibs of those probands uncovered no paranoid states and schizophrenia was no more common than in the general population. The implications for the aetiology of paranoid states and for the relationship between these and schizophrenia are discussed.

Adult↗

The gaslight phenomenon--an institutional variant.

A case of paranoid psychosis in an elderly female is reported in which recurrent episodes were apparently induced by the staff of the institution where the patient was a resident. The issues raised by this case are discussed.

Aged↗