paranoid-personality disorder

paranoid-personality disorder (usually uncountable, plural paranoid-personality disorders)

1. Alternative form of paranoid personality disorder.
   • 1987 June 18, Lyndsey Layton, “Jury weighs insanity issue in Chandler murder trial”, in The Recorder, 195th year, number 143, Greenfield, Mass., →OCLC, page 1, column 5:

     “You know a lot about Bradley Chandler,” [Thomas T.] Merrigan told the jury. “You know that guns were his hobby … there was no premeditation, that he had a paranoid-personality disorder, post-traumatic-stress disorder. You know that guns were not part of the plan, that Bradley was illusional, irrational, crazy thinking.”

   • 1988 March 25, Mack Reed, “Verdict of guilty but mentally ill passes test”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, volume 318, number 85, Philadelphia, Pa., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 14-B, column 5:

     [Eugene] Maurer cited defense psychiatrists’ diagnoses that [Roland] Daniels was suffering from a paranoid-personality disorder and post-traumatic stress syndrome caused by his brother’s death.

   • 1992 September 3, John Fleck, “Worker Calls DOE Action Retaliatory: Whistleblower Group Backs Her on Clearance”, in Albuquerque Journal, 112th year, number 247, Albuquerque, N.M.: Journal Publishing Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, section E, page 1, column 1:

     Formal charges against [Marlene] Flor were contained in a July 14 letter informing her a DOE-paid psychiatrist concluded she had “a paranoid-personality disorder,” leaving her ineligible for a security clearance.

   • 1996 January 24, Milan Rada, “Disability Takes Many Forms”, in Newsday, Nassau edition, volume 56, number 143, New York, N.Y.: Newsday Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page A39, column 3:

     The only crime here is that a genuinely fragile human being, a police officer unable to work as one because of a severe clinical depression and paranoid-personality disorder, as well as a back problem, is being punished by the system in having to deal with an unjustified, unnecessary and retaliatory criminal investigation.

   • 1997 May 13, Carol Gorga Williams, “Killer says he meant to scare ex-lover”, in Asbury Park Press, Asbury Park, N.J., →OCLC, page B4, column 1:

     [Gerald] Pascale suffered from a major depression with psychosis, from substance abuse problems and auditory hallucinations, [Daniel P.] Greenfield said. He displayed a fear of leaving familiar places and paranoid-personality disorder, Greenfield said.

   • 2003 July 13, John Agar, “Standoffs turn more dangerous”, in Sunday Chronicle, Muskegon, Mich., →OCLC, page 4A, column 3:

     If [Scott] Woodring has a level of distrust to the point of a paranoid-personality disorder, he would prove extremely difficult—and obviously, dangerous—for police to deal with, said John Hulsing, a retired state police lieutenant and psychologist who has studied state prisoners.