Schizoid Narcissist is Not Covert Narcissist
Channel: Prof. Sam Vaknin
Date: 2021-01-09

Some narcissists are not gregarious because they have a comorbid Schizoid Personality Disorder or because life pushed them to become schizoid (see next video). They avoid social events and are stay-at-home recluses. Doesn't this behaviour go against the grain of narcissism?

Howard H. Goldman (Ed.) in the "Review of General Psychiatry" [4th Edition. London, Prentice Hall International, 1995]:

"The person with Schizoid Personality Disorder sustains a fragile emotional equilibrium by avoiding intimate personal contact and thereby minimising conflict that is poorly tolerated."

Schizoid narcissists are not covert narcissists:

1. Covert narcissists are shy and anxious and convert their social dysfunction into an ideology;

2. Covert narcissists react emotionally to negative and positive supply;

3. Narcissists engage in sex and enjoy it. 

Admittedly, they use sex only in order to acquire a potential partner for a shared fantasy. If someone is deemed to not be a potential partner or once the partner is acquired, narcissists become asexual. They remain sexually active within a dyad only to forestall abandonment.

If the schizoid narcissist is also a sadist,  the sex is kinky and revolves around despoiling the partner (who accepts it and compromises her needs).

The schizoid somatic narcissist is autoerotic and uses his sex partners for self-gratification and as a form of narcissistic supply.

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