Schizoid Personality Disorder
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

When less is more: how fewer diagnostic criteria can indicate greater severity.

30 Aug 2009 For diagnosing many mental disorders, the current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) system weights each diagnostic criterion equally--each criterion counts the same toward meeting the diagnostic threshold. Research on the ... Read more...

Immersion in the surface.

30 Jul 2009 In order to treat patients with a narcissistic structure showing a rigid shell of defence together with a lack of inner differentiation - insufficient subject/object constitution - one has to deal with a split kind of transference. Their compelling ... Read more...

Facial affect recognition deficit as a marker of genetic vulnerability to schizophrenia.

29 Apr 2009 The aim of this study was to investigate the possibility that affect recognition impairments are associated with genetic liability to schizophrenia. In a group of 55 unaffected relatives of schizophrenia patients (parents and siblings) we examined ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Schizoid Personality Disorder'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• When less is more: how fewer diagnostic criteria can indicate greater severity. 30 Aug 2009
• Immersion in the surface. 30 Jul 2009
• The effects of risperidone on the cognitive performance of individuals with schizotypal personality disorder. 30 Jul 2009
• Facial affect recognition deficit as a marker of genetic vulnerability to schizophrenia. 29 Apr 2009
• [The prevalence of personality disorders in the greater-Reykjavik area] 27 Feb 2009
• [Personality disorders in eating disorder patients] 30 Jan 2009
• "I am not complaining"--ambivalence construct in schizoid personality disorder. 30 Dec 2008
• Child abuse, homicide and raids in tribes. 30 Dec 2008
• Associations between body weight and personality disorders in a nationally representative sample. 6 Oct 2008
• [Personality disorder] 13 Mar 2008
• Assessing interpersonal aspects of schizoid personality disorder: preliminary validation studies. 28 Feb 2008
• Schizoid-like features and season of birth in a nonpatient sample. 6 Feb 2008
• Ethics consultation in dual diagnosis of mental illness and mental retardation: medical decisionmaking for community-dwelling persons. 30 Dec 2007
• Clinical implications of insight assessment in obsessive-compulsive disorder. 19 Dec 2007
• Aripiprazole: effectiveness and safety under naturalistic conditions. 29 Nov 2007
• Schizoidia in schizophrenia spectrum and personality disorders: role of dissociation. 12 Jun 2007
• Rates of avoidant, schizotypal, schizoid and paranoid personality disorders in psychometric high-risk groups at 5-year follow-up. 29 May 2007
• Projective identification: a theoretical investigation of the concept starting from 'notes on some schizoid mechanisms'. 30 Mar 2007
• Head banging on an inpatient psychiatric unit: a vicious circle. 27 Feb 2007
• Cluster A personality disorders: considering the 'odd-eccentric' in psychiatric nursing. 30 Jan 2007

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Technical information about 'Schizoid Personality Disorder'

Definition: A personality disorder manifested by a profound defect in the ability to form social relationships, no desire for social involvement, and an indifference to praise or criticism.

Descriptor UI: D012557

Alternative terms: Schizoid Personality Disorder; Schizoid Personality; Personalities, Schizoid; Personality, Schizoid; Schizoid Personalities; Personality Disorder, Schizoid; Disorder, Schizoid Personality; Disorders, Schizoid Personality; Personality Disorders, Schizoid; Schizoid Personality Disorders;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: F03.675.700;

Online Note: use SCHIZOID PERSONALITY DISORDER to search SCHIZOID PERSONALITY 1972-80 (as Prov 1972); use PERSONALITY DISORDERS 1969-71

History Note: 81; was SCHIZOID PERSONALITY 1972-80 (Prov 1972), was SCHIZOID PERSONALITY see under PERSONALITY DISORDERS 1969-72