Loner’s Psychology: Mystery of Schizoid Personality (Intro to 6 Hour SEMINAR, link in description)
Channel: Prof. Sam Vaknin
Date: 2023-12-31

Full seminar here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76Tc6hAhLxo

Schizoid lifestyle as rational, ego-syntonic (happy) choice

Schizoid personality mistaken for narcissism.

Schizoid not problem of object relations but of cathexis (object libido)
Paranoid ideation, dysphoria, anxiety, and catastrophizing as engines of schizoid behavior.

Inscrutability and irrationality threaten order and structure.

Treasure chest or pandora’s box.

Triggers grandiosity by challenging it:

Misunderstood: If only understood, will be mine 
Blank screen (projection)
Blank slate (molding, formation).

Adventure, narrative, movie, thrills, technicolor.

Detachment: misconstrued as helplessness and childishness.

No threat of intimacy, lots of personal space.

Self-sufficiency misinterpreted as strength or fearlessness.

Asexuality is a challenge.

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