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schizoid personality

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schizoid personality
n.
A personality disorder characterized by long-term emotional coldness, indifference to praise, criticism, or the feelings of others, and an inability to form close friendships with more than one or two people.
schizoid personality,
a functioning but maladjusted person whose behavior is characterized by extreme shyness, oversensitivity, introversion, seclusiveness, and avoidance of close interpersonal relationships. See also schizoid personality disorder, schizophrenia.


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They then turn to a variety of personality disorders and their treatments, including the schizoid personality and impaired bonding, the hysteroid-borderline personality and separation/individualization, the narcissistic personality and the formation of an authentic self, the masochistic personality and secure attachment, the obsessive-compulsive and improvement of impaired autonomy, and the multiple approaches necessary for the hysterical personality.
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The other said that was possible but "believed he may have been suffering from a severe schizoid personality disorder, a psychotic illness or schizophrenia - or all three - and his heavy use of cannabis compounded them".
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People with schizoid personality disorder have been described as lacking empathy (e.
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