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‘Schizoid’ Personality in Childhood and Adult Life III: The Childhood Picture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Sula Wolff
Sula Wolff*
Affiliation:
University of Edinburgh Department of Psychiatry, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Morningside Park, Edinburgh EH10 5HF
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∗Correspondence
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Abstract

The childhood case records of 32 ‘schizoid’ children and 32 matched controls were analysed. ‘Schizoid’ children were characterised by solitariness, unusual fantasies, special interests, and specific developmental delays, especially of language-related skills. They were of average or above-average IQ, and half presented with other, common, child psychiatric syndromes. It is important to distinguish ‘schizoid’ children from children with reactive psychiatric disorders.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 159 , Issue 5 , November 1991 , pp. 629 - 635
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Copyright © 1991 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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