Paranoid, Schizoid, and Schizotypal Personality Disorders

Abstract

Individuals with paranoid, schizotypal, and schizoid personality disorders (PDs) have in common a disinclination to interact with others, often coupled with a diminished capacity for empathic understanding of other people's emotions. Patients with these three disorders tend to be guarded, not so self-revealing, and therefore less amenable than are many of the other PDs to psychodynamic treatment approaches. The therapeutic literature on these disorders is sparse. For the three main personality types under discussion here, this chapter includes guidelines and suggestions for treatment, encompassing the broad areas of therapy: individual, group, and psychopharmacological. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved)