• DOI:10.1521/pedi.2012.26.6.919
• Corpus ID: 19412458

Schizoid personality disorder.

@article{Triebwasser2012SchizoidPD,
  title={Schizoid personality disorder.},
  author={Joseph Triebwasser and Eran Chemerinski and Panos Roussos and Larry J. Siever},
  journal={Journal of personality disorders},
  year={2012},
  volume={26 6},
  pages={
          919-26
        }
}

• J. Triebwasser, E. Chemerinski, +1 author L. Siever
• Published 1 December 2012
• Psychology
• Journal of personality disorders

Schizoid personality disorder (ScPD) is one of the "odd cluster" or "cluster A" personality disorders in DSM-IV. In the present article, the authors review information pertaining to the psychometric characteristics of ScPD as gleaned from a search of relevant publications as well as from databases of personality disorder study groups. Comparatively little evidence exists for the validity and reliability of ScPD as a separate, multifaceted personality disorder. Some authors, moreover, have contended that the group of patients termed "schizoid" actually fall into two distinct groups--an "affect constricted" group, who might better be subsumed within schizotypal personality disorder, and a "seclusive" group, who might better be subsumed within avoidant personality disorder. The research-based justification for retaining ScPD as an independent diagnosis is sufficiently sparse for it to seem reasonable to remove ScPD from the list of personality disorders in DSM-V, and instead to invite clinicians to code for schizoid traits using a dimensional model.