ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the antisocial conduct of schizoid children in childhood and adult life compared with that of their matched controls who had also been referred to the clinic as children. Moreover, a study of violent recidivists, published some years ago, reported these as a social non-conformists lacking in feeling for other people, often with exclusive personal pursuits, yet resembling non-antisocial original thinkers in some of their personality traits. However, schizoid boys in this sample had engaged in less stealing than the other referred children, and their childhood antisocial conduct was not, as in the controls, related to adversities such as family disruption and socioeconomic disadvantage. A subsequent analysis of the childhood records of the schizoid and control boys personally interviewed in adult life, constituting different but overlapping samples, also found similar levels of childhood conduct disorders in both groups, but in these samples schizoid boys stole as often as controls.
