Author — A.P. Egides. The book «How to understand people, or the Psychological drawing of personality»
The word «paranoid» can be translated as «crazy». «Para-» — approx. «Noo-» — the mind, the spiritual sphere. At the suggestion of academician Vernadsky, the word “noosphere” entered the lexicon of mankind, by analogy with the stratosphere and biosphere … The noosphere, according to Vernadsky, is the mind of the Earth. So «noo» is the root of the word «paranoid». But “the tail is far from the nose”, and, as often happens in children’s drawings, the nose of an elephant, and the tail of a crocodile… , delusions of persecution. But now it is applied to people with a paranoid psychotype. And for them, the direct translation of this word does not fit the meaning.
The paranoid psychotype does not have such a deviation from the norm, which borders on insanity, but there is a main personality trait that determines many other things — an unusually pronounced purposefulness.
So let’s not confuse a paranoid person with a schizophrenic patient, in whom the paranoid syndrome is the leading one.