P: Paranoid

One of the three structurally comprised personality patterns, the MPParaph Spectrum pattern is often reflective of other prototypes, most often Narcissistic, Antisocial, Sadistic, or Compulsive patterns, but also evidencing constriction and inflexibility throughout the motivating aim structure. With this narrowing overlay, preferred evolutionary strategies become fixated and hardened, leading to highly engrained behavioral patterns and immutable ideology. Common complications from this include heightened defenses, projection of ill self-feelings onto others, and paranoid ideation. These individuals tend to display the following array of personologic domains:

Behavioral Level

(F) Expressively Defensive (e.g., is vigilantly guarded, alert to anticipate and ward off expected derogation, malice, and deception; is tenacious and firmly resistant to sources of external influence and control).
(F) Interpersonally Provocative (e.g., not only bears grudges and is unforgiving of those of the past, but displays a quarrelsome, fractious and abrasive attitude with recent acquaintances; precipitates exasperation and anger by a testing of loyalties and an intrusive and searching preoccupation with hidden motives).

Phenomenological Level

(F) Cognitively Suspicious (e.g., is unwarrantedly skeptical, cynical and mistrustful of the motives of others, including relatives, friends, and associates, construing innocuous events as signifying hidden or conspiratorial intent; reveals tendency to read hidden meanings into benign matters and to magnify tangential or minor difficulties into proofs of duplicity and treachery, especially regarding the fidelity and trustworthiness of a spouse or intimate friend).
(S) Inviolable Self-Image (e.g., has persistent ideas of self-importance and self-reference, perceiving attacks on one’s character not apparent to others, asserting as personally derogatory and scurrilous, if not libelous, entirely innocuous actions and events; is pridefully independent, reluctant to confide in others, highly insular, experiencing intense fears, however, of losing identity, status and powers of self-determination).
(S) Unalterable Contents (e.g., internalized representations of significant early relationships are a fixed and implacable configuration of deeply held beliefs and attitudes, as well as driven by unyielding convictions which, in turn, are aligned in an idiosyncratic manner with a fixed hierarchy of tenaciously-held, but unwarranted assumptions, fears and conjectures).

Intrapsychic Level

(F) Projection Dynamics (e.g., actively disowns undesirable personal traits and motives, and attributes them to others; remains blind to one’s own unattractive behaviors and characteristics, yet is overalert to, and hypercritical of, similar features in others).
(S) Inelastic Architecture (e.g., systemic constriction and inflexibility of undergirding morphologic structures, as well as rigidly fixed channels of defensive coping, conflict mediation and need gratification, create an overstrung and taut frame that is so uncompromising in its accommodation to changing circumstances that unanticipated stressors are likely to precipitate either explosive outbursts or inner shatterings).

Biophysical Level

(S) Irascible Mood (e.g., displays a cold, sullen, churlish and humorless demeanor; attempts to appear unemotional and objective, but is edgy, envious, jealous, quick to take personal offense and react angrily).