Schizoid Personality Disorder
Schizoid Trait Characteristics
Schizoid Disorder belongs to Cluster A: rarity and eccentricity stand out.
- Little emotional expressiveness
- Introversion
- Solitary, tendency to withdraw
- Cold and distant
- Detachment in social relations without special subjective suffering
- Absorbed by their thoughts and sensations
- Fear of friendship and intimacy, not because of exaggerated shyness, but because of a deficit in their affectivity
- More speculative than practical
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* It is thought to be a form of defense against a conflict marked by the desire to come into contact with others, and the fear that this relationship may cause harm.
* Among the causes are children who suffered rejection and lack of attention from their mother at an early age.
* It leads to an important lack of identity, because it makes one unable to know for sure who one is.
*It can be present in 4.9% of the general population, and is more frequent in men than in women.
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Source (in Spanish): Wenceslao Vial, Madurez psicológica y espiritual, Palabra.
