‘Schizoid’ Personality in Childhood and Adult Life II: Adult Adjustment and the Continuity with Schizotypal Personality Disorder

1991 ◽  
Vol 159 (5) ◽  
pp. 620-629 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sula Wolff ◽  
Rosemary Townshend ◽  
R. J. Mcguire ◽  
D. J. Weeks
Keyword(s):  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Psychosocial Adjustment ◽  
Adult Life ◽  
Schizotypal Personality Disorder ◽  
Circumscribed Interests ◽  
Schizotypal Personality ◽  
Follow Up Study ◽  
Schizoid Personality ◽  
Adult Adjustment

In a controlled follow-up study into adulthood of 32 children diagnosed ‘schizoid’, three-quarters fulfilled DSM–III criteria for schizotypal personality disorder and two developed schizophrenia. Overall their psychosocial adjustment was somewhat, but not markedly, worse than that of other attenders at a child psychiatry clinic, although as a group they remained more solitary, lacking in empathy, oversensitive, with odd styles of communicating, and often with circumscribed interests.

Lifelong Eccentricity and Social Isolation

1988 ◽  
Vol 153 (6) ◽  
pp. 783-791 ◽  
Author(s):  
Digby Tantam
Keyword(s):  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Social Isolation ◽  
Asperger's Syndrome ◽  
Asperger’S Syndrome ◽  
Schizotypal Personality Disorder ◽  
Verbal Expression ◽  
Schizotypal Personality ◽  
Schizoid Personality ◽  
Schizoid Personality Disorder

Several scales are described for measuring aspects of eccentricity and social isolation; in particular, for assessing schizoid and schizotypal personality and for rating abnormal non-verbal expression. The latter is shown to be reliable, and the former to have a measure of validity. There was an association between schizoid personality traits and abnormalities of speech and non-verbal expression. However, abnormal non-verbal expression, but not schizoid personality traits or DSM–III schizotypal personality disorder, was particularly likely to occur in those subjects who had evidence of neurological deficit, and childhood symptoms indicative of developmental disorder. Abnormal non-verbal expression, but not personality disorder, was also associated with other characteristic features of Asperger's syndrome, such as unusual, 'special’ interests. It is suggested that Asperger's syndrome is a distinct syndrome from either schizoid or schizotypal personality disorder, but may be a risk factor for the development of schizoid personality disorder.

scholarly journals Review of pharmacologic treatment in cluster A personality disorders

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessa Koch ◽  
Taylor Modesitt ◽  
Melissa Palmer ◽  
Sarah Ward ◽  
Bobbie Martin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorders ◽  
Schizotypal Personality Disorder ◽  
Pharmacologic Treatment ◽  
Schizotypal Personality ◽  
Schizoid Personality ◽  
Schizoid Personality Disorder ◽  
Paranoid Personality Disorder ◽  
Paranoid Personality ◽  
Cluster A

Abstract Introduction: A personality disorder is a pervasive and enduring pattern of behaviors that impacts an individual's social, occupational, and overall functioning. Specifically, the cluster A personality disorders include paranoid personality disorder, schizoid personality disorder, and schizotypal personality disorder. Patients with cluster A personality disorders tend to be isolative and avoid relationships. The quality of life may also be reduced in these individuals, which provokes the question of how to treat patients with these personality disorders. The purpose of this review is to evaluate the current literature for pharmacologic treatments for the cluster A personality disorders. Methods: A Medline/PubMed and Ovid search was conducted to identify literature on the psychopharmacology of paranoid personality disorder, schizoid personality disorder, and schizotypal personality disorder. There were no exclusions in terms of time frame from article publication or country of publication, in order to provide a comprehensive analysis; however, only articles that contained information on the cluster A disorders were included. Results: Minimal evidence regarding pharmacotherapy in paranoid and schizoid personality disorders was found. Literature was available for pharmacologic treatment of schizotypal personality disorder. Studies evaluating the use of olanzapine, risperidone, haloperidol, fluoxetine, and thiothixene did yield beneficial results; however, treatment with such agents should be considered on a case-by-case basis. Discussion: Most of the literature analyzed in this review presented theoretical ideas of what may constitute the neurobiologic factors of personality and what treatments may address these aspects. Further research is needed to evaluate specific pharmacologic treatment in the cluster A personality disorders. At this time, treatment with pharmacologic agents is based on theory rather than evidence.

‘Schizoid’ Personality in Childhood and Adult Life I: The Vagaries of Diagnostic Labelling

1991 ◽  
Vol 159 (5) ◽  
pp. 615-620 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sula Wolff
Keyword(s):  
Personality Disorders ◽  
Asperger's Syndrome ◽  
Asperger’S Syndrome ◽  
Adult Life ◽  
Schizotypal Personality ◽  
Schizoid Personality ◽  
Clinical Syndromes

The literature is reviewed on children variously described as having ‘schizoid’ personality disorders, Asperger's syndrome, and schizotypal personality disorders, with the aim of clarifying the nature of these clinical syndromes, and in particular the features of those children whose follow-up characteristics are described in the following two papers.

Lateral ventricular enlargement in schizotypal personality disorder

1995 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larry J. Siever ◽  
Merrill Rotter ◽  
Miklos Losonczy ◽  
Song Ling Guo ◽  
Vivian Mitropoulou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Schizotypal Personality Disorder ◽  
Ventricular Enlargement ◽  
Schizotypal Personality

Generalized Cognitive Impairment in Male Adolescents With Schizotypal Personality Disorder

2002 ◽  
Vol 116B (1) ◽  
pp. 36-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Weiser ◽  
S. Noy ◽  
Z. Kaplan ◽  
A. Reichenberg ◽  
R. Yazvitsky ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Schizotypal Personality Disorder ◽  
Schizotypal Personality ◽  
Male Adolescents
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