Schizoid Personality — a personality disorder, in DSM (from 1952). When the patient is not psychotic or manifestly thought disordered, yet withdrawn, unable to express hostility, and autistic, DSM I and DSM II employed the concept schizoid personality. Interest in… … Historical dictionary of Psychiatry
Schizoid personality disorder — DiseaseDisorder infobox Name = Schizoid personality disorder ICD10 = ICD10|F|60|1|f|60 ICD9 = ICD9|301.20 |Schizoid personality disorder (SPD) is a personality disorder characterized by a lack of interest in social relationships, a tendency… … Wikipedia
schizoid personality — a personality characterized by solitariness, emotional coldness to others, inability to experience pleasure, lack of response to praise and criticism, withdrawal into a fantasy world, excessive introspection, and eccentricity of behaviour. Some… … The new mediacal dictionary
schizoid personality — noun : a personality disorder characterized by shyness, withdrawal, inhibition of emotional expression, and apparent diminution of affect, displaying an active fantasy life often evidenced by eccentric behavior or by artistic creativeness and… … Useful english dictionary
schizoid personality disorder — [DSM IV] a personality disorder marked by detachment from social relationships and a restricted range of emotional experience and expression. Qualifying characteristics include lack of capacity for, or interest in, social relationships or family… … Medical dictionary
Personality disorder — Classification and external resources ICD 10 F60 ICD 9 301.9 … Wikipedia
personality disorder — n a psychopathological condition or group of conditions in which an individual s entire life pattern is considered deviant or nonadaptive although the individual shows neither neurotic symptoms nor psychotic disorganization * * * a deeply… … Medical dictionary
Personality Disorders — Even though upsetting behavior is as old as the human condition, systematic attention to disorders of the personality appears relatively late in the development of psychiatry. On the whole, the asylum generation of psychiatrists had little to… … Historical dictionary of Psychiatry
Schizoid — Having symptoms similar to those of schizophrenia. See schizophrenia * * * Socially isolated, withdrawn, having few (if any) friends or social relationships; resembling the personality features characteristic of schizophrenia, but in a milder… … Medical dictionary
schizoid — Synonyms and related words: alcoholic, alternating personality, ambivert, antisocial personality, brain damaged, brain injured, catatoniac, catatonic, certifiable, certifiable case, choleric, cycloid, cyclothyme, cyclothymic, disordered… … Moby Thesaurus
