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Paranoia Join now to read essay Paranoia The term paranoia was first coined by Emil Kraepelin to describe a persons delusional beliefs. Paranoia comes from Greek and originally means madness. Kraeplin originally had two types of paranoia, pure paranoia and dementia praecox. Dementia praecox was later renamed schizophrenia and pure paranoia became delusional disorder. Paranoia.