Understanding Schizoid Personality Disorder

Schizoid personality disorder

A pattern of detachment from social relationships and a restricted range of emotional expression.

Bleuler

A psychiatrist who used the term 'schizoid personality disorder' in 1924 to describe individuals who tend to turn inward and away from the outside world.

Schizoid personality disorder (Positive Symptoms)

actively unusual behaviors such as ideas of reference

Schizoid personality disorder (negative symptoms)

the more passive manifestations of social isolation or poor rapport with others

Early adulthood

The period of life that schizoids typically begin to exhibit symptoms, present in various contexts.

Four (or more)

Schizoid personality disorder indications

Schizoid personality disorder

Neither desires nor enjoys close relationships.

Schizoid personality disorder

Neither desires nor enjoys close relationships, including being part of a family.

Schizoid personality disorder

Almost always chooses solitary activities.

Schizoid personality disorder

Has little, if any, interest in having sexual experiences with another person.

Schizoid personality disorder

Takes pleasure in few, if any, activities.

Schizoid personality disorder

Lacks close friends or confidants other than first-degree relatives.

Schizoid personality disorder

Appears indifferent to the praise or criticism of others.

Schizoid personality disorder

Shows emotional coldness, detachment, or flattened affectivity.

Pleasurable activities

Individuals with schizoid personality disorder experience few __ and rarely report strong emotions.

Loners

Individuals with schizoid personality disorder tend to be and pursue solitary interests.

Social deficiencies

In schizoid personality disorder, __ are more extreme.

Observers

Individuals with schizoid personality disorder tend to be __rather than active participants in the world.

Unusual thought process

Individuals with schizoid personality disorder do not seem to have __

Help

Individuals with schizoid personality disorder tend to resist offered __.

without relationships or friends

Individuals with schizoid personality disorder can be content even