schizoid's Usage Examples:

cyclothymics, and emotionally labile), asthenics (including psychasthenics), schizoids (including dreamers), paranoiacs (including fanatics), epileptoids, hysterical.

the narcissist is apt to develop the antisocial, the paranoid, and the schizoid personality disorders.

There are two major positions: the paranoid-schizoid position and the subsequent depressive position.

produced and swept into a schizoid zone all its own where it barked and drooled while trying to behave.

The researchers also examined how schizoids, those with mild, schizophrenia-like personality disorders, were linked.

paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions occur in the pre-oedipal, oral phase of development.

and the general pattern of isolated withdrawal often lend a quality of schizoid isolation to their life experience.

Ineffectual dependent Including schizoid features Unproductive, gainless, incompetent, meritless; seeks untroubled life; refuses to deal with difficulties;.

Although this position develops into the next position, it is normal to move back and forward between the two positions although some people operate in the paranoid schizoid position for much of the time.

and span the dialectic of "aloneness-togetherness"—rather than being disposed toward either schizoid isolation (aloneness) or merging identification with.

such as: schizoid, schizotypal, narcissistic, avoidant, borderline and negativistic personality disorder.

He viewed the schizoid sense of emptiness as reflecting the withdrawal of energy from the real.

Depressive and paranoid-schizoid modes of experience continue to intermingle throughout the first few years of childhood.

Synonyms:

schizophrenic,

Antonyms:

together, sane, unneurotic,