title: Paranoid episodes in manic-depressive psychoses.
abstract: The author reports on 7 patients with a primary diagnosis of manic-depressive psychosis who had brief but well-defined episodes of paranoid symptomatology. These episodes apparently represent alterations of psychic defense structure during the dynamic flow of the psychosis toward recovery. In manic-depressive psychosis, with its genetic and physiologic components, the paranoid episodes reaffirm the unitary nature of humans, in whom heredity and physical and psychological factors inextricably interact.
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000150:complications* / Q000235:genetics / Q000523:psychology; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010259:Paranoid Disorders / Q000150:complications* / Q000523:psychology; D012075:Remission, Spontaneous