User:SummerWithMorons/Megalomaniac paranoia

Megalomaniac paranoia, is an obsolete medical condition, that has never been included into DSM or ICD, which pertains to a combination of megalomania and paranoia. The concept of megalomania itself is now considered obsolete, and the current medical terms that come closer to it are the narcissistic personality disorder and the grandiose delusions. Paranoid personality disorder is instead still diagnosed in psychiatry.

Domingo discussed the relationship between the concept of megalomaniac paranoia and the introduction of the concept of dementia praecox in the early 1900s.

References from non medical contexts
In literature, megalomaniac paranoia is the central "operative emotion" behind Thomas Pynchon's novel ''Gravity's Rainbow.

Many historical figures that have been termed paranoid megalomaniac. Historian Ian Worthington said that Alexander the Great, towards the end of his life was a paranoid megalomaniac, and that people in his hometown were aware of it. Other figures that have been labeled as such are Vidkun Quisling, and former dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu.