The hallmark of schizoid personality is the avoidance of human contact. Schizoid people structure their lives in order to avoid human contact. They become quite involved in their own private fantasy world, often to the exclusion of life around them. People often say you can tell a schizotypal walking down the street from across the street because they are just odd. Schizoid individuals often just look quiet and Treatment.
Individual psychotherapy is quite difficult.
But for most schizoid individuals who do present for therapy, as they begin to trust the therapist they also begin to share their fantasy lives, which can be quite vivid. Group psychotherapy has not been useful for schizoid individuals. There is no specific role for medication that has Schizotypal personality disorder . This is similar to schizoid personality with the additional features of strange or eccentric looking, having oddities of perception and communication, odd word usages. Schizotypal personality disorder is the one personality disorder that we know to be genetically linked to schizophrenia.