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schizophrenia

Sometimes confused with the rare multiple personality disorder, or "split personality," the term schizophrenia covers a range of psychoses that involve severe delusions and a withdrawl from the "real world." Paranoia in its clinical form is one of the schizophrenias. Many cases of schizophrenia can be controlled with medication.