ABSTRACT
Schizoid Personality Disorder can be recognized by the following descriptors and characteristics: style vs. disorder, triggering event(s), behavioral style, interpersonal style, cognitive style, affective style, attachment style, and optimal diagnostic criterion. This chapter focuses on description, case conceptualization, assessment, and treatment interventions. It begins with background information on the disorder as well as a DSM-5 description and a prototypic description of this disorder. The Minnesota Multiphase Personality Inventory (MMPI-2), the Million Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI-IV), the Rorschach Psychodiagnostic Test, and the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) can be useful in diagnosing the Schizoid Personality Disorder as well as the schizoid personality style or trait. Currently, there are no psychotropic medications specifically indicated for treating individuals with Schizoid Personality Disorder. Because some controlled trials indicated that antipsychotics were useful in the treatment of Schizotypal Personality Disorder. Schizoid patients tend to avoid mental health professionals just as they avoid relationships in general.
