Lack of awareness of disease in persons with untreated psychotic disorder - a legal perspective

Paranoids in the legal system. The litigious paranoid and the paranoid criminal Paranoid symptomatology involving suspicions, a sense of being wronged and persecuted, along with an implacable will to retaliate against one's enemies, often translates into litigious struggles. Paranoids resort to the judicial arena to act out their own internal psychopathologic needs. Examples are offered of the many ways litigious paranoids may present within the legal system....