'Schizoid' personality in childhood and adult life. II: Adult adjustment and the continuity with schizotypal personality disorder

Br J Psychiatry. 1991 Nov:159:620-9, 634-5. doi: 10.1192/bjp.159.5.620.

Abstract

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.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Autistic Disorder / diagnosis
  • Autistic Disorder / psychology
  • Child
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Personality Assessment
  • Personality Development*
  • Schizoid Personality Disorder / diagnosis*
  • Schizoid Personality Disorder / psychology
  • Schizotypal Personality Disorder / diagnosis*
  • Schizotypal Personality Disorder / psychology
  • Social Adjustment*