Schizotypal Personality Disorder
| Definition: |
A personality disorder in which there are oddities of thought (magical thinking, paranoid ideation, suspiciousness), perception (illusions, depersonalization), speech (digressive, vague, overelaborate), and behavior (inappropriate affect in social interactions, frequently social isolation) that are not severe enough to characterize schizophrenia. |
| Also Called: |
Incipient Schizophrenia,Schizophrenia, Latent,Schizophrenia, Pseudoneurotic,Pseudopsychopathic Schizophrenia,Schizophrenia, Borderline |
| Previously Indexed: |
Schizophrenia (1966-1971) |
Schizotypal Personality Disorder Definitions and Terms
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