Schizoid individuals often just look quiet and withdrawn. Also, think about avoidance personality disorders and here is where DSM IV says that avoidant people are people who secretly long for relationships but are afraid to have them. Schizoid people don t want them. Paranoid personality disorder is one thing to think about in the differential, but paranoid individuals have a great ability to engage people socially. They are often also more verbally aggressive than schizoid individuals and are also less absorbed in 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 been defined in 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. In fact it was created out of the Danish adoption studies found a group of people with this symptom cluster who were much more heavily concentrated in the biological relatives of schizophrenics.