<prompt> Which of the following is not a paranoid symptom?Delusion of persecutionDelusion of referenceDelusion of grandiosityThought alienation  <response>: The term paranoid is often used as a substitute for the term persecutory hence paranoid delusions usually means Delusion of persecution but strictly speaking the term paranoid means delusional. hence all delusions are paranoid symptoms Thought Alienation; Symptom of psychosis, especially schizophrenia, in which patients feel that their own thoughts are in some way no longer within their control by being, for example, removed or replaced by an outside force or agency. 