One of the main symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia is delirious ideas. In N’s case, the following are prevailing:
persecution delirious ideas, filiation and relation, as well as delirious interpretativity. The psychodynamic factors
involved are important for understanding the symbolic meaning of symptoms. The grandeur deliriums follow,
usually, after a self esteem insult(Garfield et al., 1987, apud Gabbard, 2007).