Case Study: Schizoid Personality Disorder | Cluster A Personality Pathology

This video answers the question: Can I analyze a case study involving schizoid personality disorder?

A case study is when a clinician documents their experiences in treating a client. They do this with the client’s consent. Sometimes case studies are called clinical vignettes or case reports.

Schizoid Personality Disorder is a Cluster A personality disorder (odd, eccentric) in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual.

It has symptom criteria, four or more must be endorsed for a diagnosis:

(1) neither desires nor enjoys close relationships, including being part of a family
(2) almost always chooses solitary activities
(3) has little, if any, interest in having sexual experiences with another person
(4) takes pleasure in few, if any, activities
(5) lacks close friends or confidants other than first-degree relatives
(6) appears indifferent to the praise or criticism of others
(7) shows emotional coldness, detachment, or flattened affect

Nirestean, A., Lukacs, E., Cimpan, D., & Taran, L. (2012). Complex case: Schizoid personality disorder—the peculiarities of their interpersonal relationships and existential roles. Personality and Mental Health, 6(1), 69–74. https://doi-org.mylibrary.wilmu.edu/1...

Fossati, A. (2012). Shut in or split up? A commentary on Dr Nirestean and colleagues’ ‘Schizoid personality disorder—the peculiarities of their interpersonal relationships and existential roles.’ Personality and Mental Health, 6(1), 77–82. https://doi-org.mylibrary.wilmu.edu/1...

American Psychiatric Association (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders
(5th ed.). Washington DC: American Psychiatric Association.

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