Schizoid Personality Disorder, with Daniel Winarick, Ph.D.

Dr. Winarick and I dive deep into Schizoid Personality Disorder. He discusses the history of the Schizoid character throughout psychiatry and psychology, the changes in the DSM when Schizoid Personality Disorder broke off into three distinct personality disorders (Schizotypal, Avoidant, and Schizoid), and the difference between descriptive diagnostics and Psychoanalytic diagnostics. He reviews the main findings in his dissertation, which examined the differences and similarities between Schizoid and Avoidant Personality Disorders. We also talk about the Schizoid spectrum, as viewed in Nancy McWilliams’ Psychoanalytic Diagnosis, where there is a neurotic-borderline-psychotic axis measuring the degree of disturbance. And more!

Daniel Winarick, Ph.D. has been assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the Ichan School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai Hospital; an adjunct assistant professor of psychology at Queens College-CUNY and Adelphi University as well as of social work at Long Island University - Brooklyn. He is currently a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice in New York City.

As a doctoral student, he partook externships at Columbia University Medical Center/New York Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Cornell Medical Center – Payne Whitney Westchester. He completed his doctoral dissertation research on schizoid personality disorder (SPD), with a focus on its construct validity and diagnostic distinction from avoidant personality disorder (AVPD) in the DSM-IV and DSM-5. Dr. Winarick completed his pre-doctoral clinical psychology internship and postdoctoral fellowship training at the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute and Mt. Sinai Hospital/Ichan School of Medicine, and as a postdoctoral fellow, he received an appointment as Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Ichan School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Adelphi University and his B.A. in Psychology from Washington University in St. Louis.

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Clint Sabom is Creative Director of Contemplative Light. He lived in Budapest, Hungary in 2003 as a Gilman Scholar. He speaks English, Spanish, and Portuguese. In 2007, he lived for six months in a silent monastery.. He holds bachelor’s degrees in Religious Studies and one in Spanish literature. He has traveled extensively through Europe and South America. He has spoken and/or performed at Amnesty International, Health Conferences, High Schools, and art galleries across the US. He has studied and done in his own work in Advaita Vedanta, Buddhism, Shamanism, NLP, and hypnosis.

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