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A Consensual Validation of Schizoid Personality in Childhood and Adult Life

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Ann Cull ,
Jonathan Chick  and
Sula Wolff
Ann Cull
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Western General Hospital, Crewe Road, Edinburgh EH4 2XU
Jonathan Chick
Affiliation:
Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Morningside Park, Edinburgh EH10 5HF
Sula Wolff
Affiliation:
Royal Hospital for Sick Children, 3 Rillbank Terrace, Edinburgh EH9 1LL
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Summary

Life histories and interview descriptions of 23 young men diagnosed as schizoid in middle childhood and adult life and of 20 control subjects not given this diagnosis were presented for diagnostic rating to two independent general psychiatrists. Agreement about the presence or absence of schizoid personality was good. It is concluded that, in the case of boys, the syndrome of schizoid personality in childhood (Asperger's syndrome) corresponds to or is subsumed by the more general clinical picture psychiatrists have of schizoid personality in adult life, and that our original use of this diagnostic label for the youngsters we described was not idiosyncratic.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 144 , Issue 6 , June 1984 , pp. 646 - 648
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Copyright © 1984 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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