‘Schizoid’ Personality in Childhood and Adult Life II: Adult Adjustment and the Continuity with Schizotypal Personality Disorder

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.

Borderline Conditions in Childhood

“…A large part were diagnosed psychopathia as adults, indicating an antisocial beha viour. This supports previous findings by Wolff et al [7]. ICD-10 [14] does not include a special category for Borderline Personality Disor der in Childhood.…”

Cluster A Personality Disorders: A Review

“…schizoid or schizotypal traits with negative symptoms; antisocial traits with disorganization [122][123][124]. Some clinical studies point to a symptomatic overlap between pre-schizotypal states in childhood and the Asperger's syndrome [125,126]. Unfortunately, the studies in this group are not directly comparable.…”

El autismo 70 años después de Leo Kanner y Hans Asperger

“…Los pacientes descritos por Ssucharewa fueron rescatados para la literatura médica por Sula Wolff, quien los asimiló al grupo de pacientes que dicha autora ha clasificado como trastorno esquizoide de la personalidad en la infancia (25). Sin embargo, los límites entre este trastorno y el síndrome de Asperger son muy sutiles y difíciles de delimitar (26).…”