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Unfortunately, you cannot distinguish disorders or what they mean, by comparing only the terms and definitions from different diagnostic models, with each other. You also need to understand the perspectives of those different models and their dialogue or absence of dialogue, with each other.Psychology and psychiatry, do not forget, differ from each other (and within each other) in their approaches. Mental health is a fractured disciplinary field.A Brief HistoryPeople diagnosed with SPD using a medical descriptive model, may or may not have SPD according to the psychodynamic diagnostic model—which is a softer, more holistic model that takes people’s subjective experiences into account, and separates personality or psychosocial development[1] from more serious ‘brain illnesses’, while understanding that these adaptations are embedded in neural pathways[2]and this can also cause mood and impulse dysregulation.There is always a reactive, behavioural structure to personality problems, in the form of splitting defenses: “Splitting was first described by Ronald Fairbairn in his formulation of object relations theory; it begins as the inability of the infant to combine the fulfilling aspects of the parents (the good object) and their unresponsive aspects (the unsatisfying object) into the same individuals, instead seeing the good and bad as separate.”Splitting originally protected the infant and child (it also goes on into youth) from too much external complexity overwhelming their development needs, which in personality disorders was not fully resolved. (This framework for splitting should be distinguished from other social problems, like political conflicts).You can have more or less complex personality problems, and overlap with some neurodevelopmental differences: Neurodevelopmental disorders are impairments of the growth and development of the brain and/or central nervous system.Psychology as a discipline, developed in different ways, because not all problems are the same. The different areas of specialisation do not always have an overview of others. This problem exists in other disciplines as well.The separation pf schizoid disorder(s) into a schizophrenia spectrum and an avoidant spectrum:The original concept of the schizoid character developed by Ernst Kretschmer in the 1920s comprised an amalgamation of avoidant, schizotypal and schizoid traits. It was not until 1980 and the work of Theodore Millon that led to splitting this concept into three personality disorders (now schizoid, schizotypal and avoidant). This caused debate about whether this was accurate or if these traits were different expressions of a single personality disorder.Some critics such as Nancy McWilliams of Rutgers University argue that the definition of SPD is flawed due to cultural bias and that it does not constitute a mental disorder but simply an avoidant attachment style requiring more distant emotional proximity. If that is true, then many of the more problematic reactions these individuals show in social situations may be partly accounted for by the judgements commonly imposed on people with this style. [3]The disappearance of SPD following this debate: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. [4]The reason why “comparatively little evidence exists” is because psychiatry and mainstream psychology have either rejected psychodynamic diagnostic models in favour of cognitive-behavioural and medical models, or lack specialist training in this area. The DSM favours Millon’s approach to separate schizotypal and avoidant, and the dimensional trait model—this is a rough analysis.The DSM Approach to SPD vs AvPDSchizoid PD is a Cluster A disorder involving symptoms of flat affect and vulnerability to developing schizophrenia from a shared genetic component. People with SPD are not interested in relationships and are unresponsive to psychotherapy.Avoidant PD is based on anxious-avoidance of social contact due to fears of rejection and low confidence. The souce of social anxiety is undefined, it is an experimental category.Avoidant PD is part of the trait-dimensional model, and is more often that not combined with other disorders or traits.The psychodynamic definition of SPD:People on the schizoid-avoidance spectrum (schizoid involving a deeper split), are highly sensitive and have ‘developed in a sensitive, fragile way’ from early experiences from which they internalised social fears and learned avoidance coping behaviours. They protect their vulnerability through social distance and inner withdrawal. This has been called ‘a split’ in the personality structure, in object-relations theory.‘Schizoid fears’ are noted for taking on particular focuses (that allow the person to manage them), and being existential in nature.People with SPD experience loss of affect for these (non-mysterious) reasons:Habitual dissociation from painful emotions, associated with other people, certain situations, and with internalised emotional impressions around which avoidance-coping defense mechanisms have formed a psychological structure or mental pathways.A pattern of withdrawal where most emotional investment is directed towards the inner world, not other people (or social conventions).A tendency to intellectualise emotions in order to manage being overwhelmed by them (part of functional dissociation).Loss of affect is combined with hypersensitivity to emotions, in SPD. This is where the average person gets confused, and where cultural biases fill gaps in understanding.Theory vs RealityThe ways in which SPD or a ‘schizoid self structure’—affects people who fit this description, differs, depending on the person’s overall character and background. For example, cynicism and independence, are defenses against underlying sensitivity. Some schizoids can be too timid to develop a social persona, and others can seem extroverted. There can be mood episodes involving suicidal themes, without this being acted on. Many schizoids in therapy suffer from trauma. Some manage their need for interpersonal safety through effective ‘compromises’.Theory is an abstraction of human behaviour and experience, reality is always more complex. Abstraction allows therapists to recognise certain underlying themes within a diverse range of expression and self-presentations.People with a schizoid adaptation or variation of it, do not exactly fit the DSM descriptions of either SPD or AvPD. The DSM definitions lack theoretical and descriptive depth.Footnotes[1] Object relations theory[2] Therapy And Neural Pathways[3] Schizoid personality disorder[4] Schizoid personality disorder - PubMed

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