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

1991; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 159; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1192/bjp.159.5.620

1472-1465

Sula Wolff, Rosemary Townshend, Ross McGuire, David J. Weeks,

Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications

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.