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‘Schizoid’ personality and antisocial conduct: a retrospective case note study

1986; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 16; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s0033291700010424

1469-8978

Sula Wolff, Ann Cull,

Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development

A retrospective case not analysis for 30 boys diagnosed as having a 'schizoid' personality disorder (Asperger's syndrome) in childhood, and for 30 matched clinic attenders (with systematic follow-up data for 19 matched pairs), showed the incidence of antisocial conduct to be the same in the two groups. However, the 'schizoid' boys stole less often and had fewer alcohol problems. In this group antisocial conduct was less related to family disruption and social disadvantage, and more to an unusual fantasy life. Clinical descriptions of a series of 'schizoid' boys and girls with conspicuous antisocial conduct follow. They suggest that characteristic patterns of antisocial conduct in such children are persistent expressions of hostility and, especially in girls, pathological lying, for which environmental circumstances provide no explanation.