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Schizoid personality disorder

Schizoid personality disorder (/ˈskɪtsɔɪd, ˈskɪdzɔɪd, ˈskɪzɔɪd/, often abbreviated as SzPD or ScPD) is a personality disorder characterized by a lack of interest in social relationships, a tendency toward a solitary or sheltered lifestyle, reservedness, emotional coldness, detachment, and apathy. Affected individuals may be unable to form intimate…

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Causes
Family history; cold, indifferent, or intrusive parenting; traumatic brain injury; low birth weight; prenatal malnutrition
Diagnostic method
Based on symptoms
Differential diagnosis
Other mental disorders with psychotic symptoms (schizophrenia, delusional disorder, and a bipolar or depressive disorder with psychotic features), personality change due to anot…
Duration
Lifelong
Frequency
0.8%
Medication
Not general practice but may include low dose benzodiazepines, β-blockers, nefazodone, bupropion

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Diagnostic method · 1
Schizoid personality disorder → Based on symptoms
Differential diagnosis · 1
Schizoid personality disorder → Other mental disorders with psychotic symptoms (schizophrenia, delusional disorder, and a bipolar or depressive disorder with psychotic features), personality change due to anot…
Duration · 1
Schizoid personality disorder → Lifelong

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Schizoid personality disorderCausesFamily history; cold, indifferent, or intrusive parenting; traumatic brain injury; low birth weight; prenatal malnutrition1.00infobox
Schizoid personality disorderDiagnostic methodBased on symptoms1.00infobox
Schizoid personality disorderDifferential diagnosisOther mental disorders with psychotic symptoms (schizophrenia, delusional disorder, and a bipolar or depressive disorder with psychotic features), personality change due to anot…1.00infobox
Schizoid personality disorderDurationLifelong1.00infobox
Schizoid personality disorderFrequency0.8%1.00infobox
Schizoid personality disorderMedicationNot general practice but may include low dose benzodiazepines, β-blockers, nefazodone, bupropion1.00infobox
Schizoid personality disorderPrognosisTypically poor1.00infobox
Schizoid personality disorderPronunciation/ˈskɪtsɔɪd, ˈskɪdzɔɪd, ˈskɪzɔɪd/1.00infobox
Schizoid personality disorderRisk factorsFamily history1.00infobox
Schizoid personality disorderSpecialtyPsychiatry, clinical psychology1.00infobox
Schizoid personality disorderSymptomsPervasive emotional detachment, reduced affect, lack of close friends, apathy, anhedonia, unintentional insensitivity to social norms, sexual abstinence, preoccupation with fant…1.00infobox
Schizoid personality disorderTreatmentPsychodynamic psychotherapy; cognitive behavioral therapy1.00infobox
Schizoid personality disorderTypesLanguid schizoid, remote schizoid, depersonalized schizoid, affectless schizoid (Millon's subtypes)1.00infobox
Schizoid personality disorderUsual onsetLate childhood or adolescence1.00infobox

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