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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Sula Wolff ,
Rosemary Townshend ,
R. J. Mcguire  and
D. J. Weeks
Sula Wolff
Affiliation:
University of Edinburgh Department of Psychiatry, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Morningside Park, Edinburgh EH10 5HF
Rosemary Townshend
Affiliation:
University of Edinburgh Department of Psychiatry, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Morningside Park, Edinburgh EH10 5HF
R. J. Mcguire
Affiliation:
University of Edinburgh Department of Psychiatry, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Morningside Park, Edinburgh EH10 5HF
D. J. Weeks
Affiliation:
Jardine Clinic, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Morningside Park, Edinburgh EH10 5HF
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Abstract

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.

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Papers
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 159 , Issue 5 , November 1991 , pp. 620 - 629
Copyright
Copyright © 1991 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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