title: 'Paranoia and its historical development (systematized delusion)', by Eugenio Tanzi (1884).
abstract: This was the first paper by the Italian alienist Eugenio Tanzi (1856-1934). It surveyed existing works and provided an analysis of clinical categories such as monomania, sensory madness, moral insanity, Wahnsinn, Verrücktheit and systematized delusions, which had been used in France, Germany, Britain and Italy since the early nineteenth century to deal with paranoia. As pointed out by Tanzi, discrepancies and discontinuities in diagnostic concepts affected both psychiatric nosology and practice. Paranoia (from the Greek παρά and νοια) made for greater clarity in psychiatric terminology, and denoted a broad category, including both acute and chronic delusional states which were considered to be distinct from mania and melancholia, and usually not to lead to mental deterioration.
authors.affiliation: University of Modena and Reggio Emilia augusto.castagnini@unimore.it.
authors.forename: Augusto
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Castagnini
mesh_terms: D003702:Delusions / Q000266:history; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D010259:Paranoid Disorders / Q000266:history*; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000266:history; D014177:Translations
keywords: 19th century; Delusion; degeneration; functional psychosis; history; nosology