Personality Disorders: Toward the DSM-VChapter 3Paranoid personality disorder Paranoid personality disorder (PPD) is characterized by a mistrust of other people. Other features include: quarrelsomeness, hostility, emotional coldness, hypersensitivity to lights of criticism, stubbornness and rigidity held maladaptive beliefs of others’ intents.The underlying assumption is that other are malevolent. Measures must be taken to protect oneself.People with paranoid personality disorder tend to hold grudges, have enemies are often litigious, and can be pathologically jealous. Paranoid personality disorder exemplifies one extreme pole of the agreeableness-antagonism dimension of the five-factor model of personality. The pattern of antagonistic behaviour often causes difficulties in interpersonal relationships. It may provocate the kinds of attacks these individuals fear. People with paranoid personality disorder are usually not psychotic, although they may experience transient psychotic-like symptoms under conditions of extreme stress. The beliefs in paranoid personality disorder are rarely of psychotic proportions. Unlike PPD, paranoid schizophrenia and delusional disorder involve frank delusions, false beliefs of psychotic proportions. Such beliefs are not always evident. People with PPD sometimes develop transient delusions when under extreme stress. Schizotypal individuals display odd or eccentric ideas, peculiar thinking or speech, unusual perceptual experiences...