(folly)
This term has represented a variety of disorders, syndromes or symptoms.
- Syndrome suggestive of schizophrenia
- Delusional disorder.
- Synonymous with Guislain's folly
- Kraepelin identified 4 types
- paraphrenia confabulans
- paraphrenia expansiva
- paraphrenia phantastica
- paraphrenia systematica (paranoia)
- Leonhard's term for paranoid schizophrenia includes 6 types