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La Paranoia Querulante (o Paranoia Litigante)

Segun la Enciclopedia Britanica, la "Paranoia Querulans", o "Paranoia
Querulante", o "Paranoia Litigante", es una enfermedad mental que se
define como:

Litigious Paranoia (paranoia querulans)
>From the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
The clinical form of litigious paranoia presents uniform characteristic
features which are recognized in every civilized community. The basic
emotion is vanity, but added to that is a strong element both of
acquisitiveness and avarice. Moreover the subjects are, as regards
character, persistent, opinionative and stubborn. When these qualities are
superadded to a mind of the paranoiac type, which as has been pointed out,
is more influenced by the passions or emotions than by ordinary rational
considerations, it can readily be appreciated that the subjects are
capable of creating difficulties and anxieties which sooner or later may
lead to their forcible seclusion in the interests of social order. Though
well versed in legal procedure he may one day lose self-control and resort
to threats of violence. He is then probably arrested and may on
examination be found insane and committed to an asylum. Another not
uncommon result is that finding himself non-suited in a court of law he
commits a technical assault upon, it may be, some high legal functionary,
or on some person in a prominent social position, with the object of
securing an opportunity of directing public attention to his grievances.
The only result is, as in the former instance, his medical certification
and incarceration.