Thornton questions the general applicability of the concept of homosexual conflict in the psychogenesis of paranoid processes. He finds satisfaction instead in various explanatory ideas, e.g., escape from social responsibility, repression of inferiority feelings, and evasion of the painful reality of failure. Clinical data for these views are strikingly absent. A sharp nosological distinction between paranoia and paranoid schizophrenia is recommended, but criteria for such a differentiation are not offered.