A form of schizophrenia characterized by delusions (of persecution or grandeur or jealousy); symptoms may include anger and anxiety and aloofness and doubts about gender identity; unlike other types of schizophrenia the patients are usually presentable and (if delusions are not acted on) may function in an apparently normal manner.
Also applicable to/known as
Involutional paranoid state
Late paraphrenia
Paraphrenia (involutional)
ICD-9-CM Volume 2 Index Entries That Refer To 297.2