The closer the clinical picture resembles “pure” schizoid personality, the less the likelihood there will be any target symptoms responsive to medication. Schizotypal patients, in contrast, may present with considerable levels of anxiety and may benefit…

Young schizoid and schizotypal patients are often caught in tense family situations similar to those arising in the families of certain schizophrenic patients. The parents may maintain unrealistically high expectations - in some instances because…

Group therapy may play an invaluable role in the overall treatment approach for many schizoid and schizotypal patients. Their characteristic fearfulness and mistrust of others make most schizoid and schizotypal patients reluctant to participate in…

Dynamic Psychotherapy
Because schizoid patients are generally uncomfortable with emotional closeness, dynamic therapy is best carried out on a once- or twice-weekly schedule, rather than on the more frequent basis that is customary in…

Studies of outcome, especially in the long term, of schizoid or schizotypal patients are few in number. These have been reviewed by M. H. Stone (1993). Wolff and Chick noted that…

For didactic purposes, it is easier to address the issue of treatment in the realm of PDs as though patients manifested “prototypic” or textbook instances of the disorder whose DSM criteria…

Schizoid and Schizotypal Personality Disorders Introduction