ABSTRACT
This chapter examines Paranoid Schizophrenia in terms of etiology, incidence, and symptoms. It suggests the specific negotiation techniques to deal with a person suffering from this type of disorder. To use a medical analogy, the psychiatric treatment for Paranoid Schizophrenia by providing medication like Thorazine, Zyprexa, Mellaril, Clozaril and others is the equivalent of a medical doctor treating a person with tuberculosis by prescribing a cough suppressant. Two primary symptoms characterize the Paranoid Schizophrenic: hallucinations and delusions. The mainstream theory postulates a genetic predisposition in combination with a severely disturbed mother–child relationship, particularly in the first years of life. In Schizophrenia, internal mental events are confused with external world happenings, resulting in faulty perceptions and disturbed logic. It is difficult to determine with any degree of statistical accuracy how many persons in negotiators society are afflicted with Schizophrenia: Coleman, Butcher, and Carson state that they are about one percent of the world’s population.
