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Listen to the story carefully and decided for yourself if it deserves to be on the big screen.6 May, 1856In the forgotten town of Freiberg[1] in the Austrian empire, a Jewish couple, Jakob and Amalia, welcome the first of their eight children. The child was born in a locksmith’s house with a caul.[2]A caul is a membrane that covers a new born and is extremely rare. Only 1 in 80,000 births can boast of a caul.His birthplace today.By the time the child turned 9 years old, he was pursuing education in of the most prestigious schools in Vienna. He had fierce love for literature and by the time he graduated in 1873 he was proficient in many languages including German, Italian, French, Spanish, Hebrew and Greek to name a few. [3]At the age of 17, he had decided to pursue law. Destiny had other plans for him as he took up medical sciences eventually. By the time he completed his studies, he had dissected numerous organisms, specially eels in an attempt to locate their male reproductive organ.He took up a post at Vienna General Hospital, and within a year published a paper on effects of Cocaine. A few years later he published his first book as well.“On the Aphasias: a Critical Study”He soon gave up his post and started on his own, specializing in nervous disorders. Soon he married and he had six children by 1895.He was a heavy tobacco smoker, starting initially from cigarettes and later moving onto cigars.During a period when he was undergoing depression, heart related problems and experiencing weird dreams, he came up with a lot of theories. He analysed himself during the period. He always had hostile feelings for his father, and his affection towards his mother was perturbed as well as she was not the only wife his father had married.He came up with the concept of Psychoanalysis[4], which were theories and certain therapies based on the possibility of an unconscious mind. After analyzing several similar cases, he published “The Interpretation Of Dreams”.He even visualizes a model of the mental structure: conscious, pre-conscious and unconscious.He wanted to be posted as a university professor to pursue his studies but due to disagreement with most of his theories, he was always denied. Eventually, one of his patients bribed the minister of Education with a painting to get him posted as a professor.Most of his patients were treated under pseudonyms to keep their case history a secret. After publishing “The History Of Psychoanalytic Movement” and forming International Psychoanalytical Association, his theories were received by many like minded people. However, he always did face a certain traction from many parts of the society.In 1923, due to heavy smoking cancer was detected on his mouth. During a certain operation he bled heavily and many believe he escaped death very narrowly. Felix Deutsch, who later confirmed his cancer was fatal did not inform him also as he feared he might turn suicidal.After Nazis took control of Germany, most of his books were burned and destroyed. Despite Nazis taking over, he was determined to stay in Vienna only and not take an exile somewhere else.He did shift to London eventually and continued seeing patients there also. By 1939, his cancer had taken over completely. The pain was unbearable.On 22nd September, 1939 he was administered heavy doses of Morphine. It resulted in his death the next day at around 3 am. His ashes were placed in a container designed by his son. In 1951, his wife Martha’s ashes were also placed in the same urn.Who is he?He was the man who understood the importance of the unconscious mind, and that the unconscious mind manipulates our behavior more than we could even imagine.The very concept of ego, id and superego was coined by this man. He laid the base for modern psychiatry and therapy sessions.Sigmund Freud.[5]“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”― Sigmund FreudFootnotes[1] Příbor - Wikipedia[2] Caul - Wikipedia[3] Sigmund Freud - Wikipedia[4] Psychoanalysis - Wikipedia[5] Biography, Philosophy and Facts

Many people with Schizoid Personality Disorder find ways to accommodate their fears about interpersonal contact. I will divide these into “Romantic adaptations” and “Work adaptations,” although sometimes these overlap. Most successful Schizoid methods of managing the scary parts of interpersonal contact utilize some of the following methods;Actively finding ways to limit other people’s access to themFinding ways to get control over their own domainHaving built in aspects to the situation that limits how close or how frequently contact can occurHaving “on” and “off” relationshipsROMANCEMy Schizoid clients use some of the following strategies to have romantic and/or sexual relationships. These strategies allow them as much interpersonal intimacy as they can tolerate without feeling overwhelmed by the other person.Long Distance RelationshipsThis is a very common method because it allows the person with Schizoid issues to feel safe being completely “on”—passionate, loving, involved— because there is a predictable and limited time frame. They know that they can return to their “off” setting as soon as the trip ends.Example—Ben the Traveling SalesmanBen is a 45 year old man who has never been married. He says that he views marriage as a prison. Once married, he believes his wife’s needs and wishes will affect all his life decisions and take away his prized independence and autonomy. He says that he does not want children because they too would be a constant, forever responsibility.Ben’s parents were very controlling and abusive. He was a thoughtful child and he comforted himself with the idea that when he was an adult, he would never, ever put himself in a position where another person had the ability to limit his freedom.Ben’s adaptation: Ben travels for work and generally meets the women he dates in his hotel’s bar. He is in each town for no more than a week at most, and generally comes back to the same places every three months.He is a good looking single man and usually is able to find a lonely and willing woman to date during his stay. He is generous and takes his dates to good restaurants and sometimes buys them presents.As he visits the same place four times per year, he sometimes forms long lasting relationships with some of these women and he talks and texts with them in between visits. If a woman gets too clingy and asks for more than Ben is willing to give, he “ghosts” on her and simply disappears from her life.Fantasy and Married PartnersThis is another common way that Schizoid individuals use to limit contact. Unlike Ben, who had no illusions about what he was doing, some of my clients actually believed that they wanted their married lover to leave their spouse and marry them.They fantasize in great detail about how blissful it will be once the two of them are together and the spouse out of the picture. Then they pressure their lover to get a divorce and marry them.If they do get their wish, some suddenly find that they are either too scared to go forward with their romantic plans or that all their feelings for their lover have suddenly disappeared. They did not understand that the other person’s unavailability was what allowed them to feel safe enough to pursue the relationship.Example—Jenny and Married GeorgeJenny, an attractive 35 year old woman with profound Schizoid issues, worked for George, a 47 year old married man. He did not know it, but Jenny had been fantasizing about a relationship with him for the past three years.Jenny’s Adaptation; Jenny had turned inwards at an early age in order to mentally and emotionally escape from her childhood situation. She developed a very rich and very elaborate fantasy life that was much more satisfying to her than any of her actual relationships.When George and she were thrown together at an office holiday party, fantasy collided with reality. After a few drinks, they found themselves leaving the party together and going back to Jenny’s apartment. They had a night of passionate sex. After that, they continued meeting after work on nights that George told his wife that he was stuck at the office.Jenny started pressuring George for a greater commitment. George had told her that he loved her during a passionate moment and Jenny took him seriously and pressed George to leave his wife and marry her.George did leave his wife and move in with Jenny. Jenny was startled to find that the reality of living with George did not match her fantasy. She felt numb and disappointed. George’s constant presence made her feel trapped and stifled. Two weeks later George saw the writing on the wall and went back to his wife.Unavailable PartnersVery early in my career when I knew nothing about Schizoid Personality Disorders, let alone Schizoid coping strategies, I had a very strange experience.A young woman Jill, in her early twenties, came in with her mother. I suggested that I see the young woman alone. The mother chose to wait in the waiting room.Jill told me that her problem was that she was in love with a famous baseball player who she had never met in person. She had seen him on television and had also gone to see him play in a baseball game. The only thing that she wanted to work on in therapy were strategies for meeting and marrying this baseball player.Her mother totally supported her goal and was going to pay for the therapy. Jill did not appear to be delusional, except for her single-minded totally impractical fixation on this baseball player. When I asked about her life, she seemed not to have any close friends. Her relationship with her mother and her fantasy relationship with the baseball player were her main social outlets.After a few sessions, I realized that Jill was unwilling to participate in any form of insight-oriented psychotherapy and I was unequipped to be of any real service to her. We agreed to stop working together.Jill’s Adaptation: I thought about Jill for years. After reading the British Object Relations theorists Harry Guntrip’s and Ronald Fairbairn’s case histories of Schizoid patients, I now believe that Jill had made a lower level Schizoid adaptation. She had fixated on someone entirely unavailable to her because it would have been impossible for her to sustain a romantic relationship with an actual person. The choice of a fantasy figure as a love object allowed her to feel connected to a particular man without presenting her with real life challenges that she was unable to face.WORKIn general, my Schizoid clients report being happiest when they can work by themselves without interference or when they are the master of their domain and can set the rules.Working with Machines, not PeopleExample—Jeff the Computer ExpertJeff had always found computers easier to deal with than people. He intuitively understood and enjoyed the logic and predictability of computer systems. He also felt safe and in control when he was working with them, unlike the way he felt when he was around other people.Jeff’s Adaptation: Jeff became a freelance computer consultant and had a satisfying and successful career. Jeff met his social needs through computers as well. He was an active presence in several online groups and regularly attended conferences on topics that interested him.Jeff had a few dates and sexual encounters, but preferred to remain unmarried.Medical Doctors, Psychotherapists and TeachersThese professions offer people with Schizoid adaptations autonomy and the ability to set the rules. I have known many Schizoid psychotherapists who are excellent and completely present and available during their clients’ sessions or when they are teaching. They tend, however, to avoid parties and other unstructured social gatherings because they find them too anxiety provoking.Example—Jane the AcademicJane is a brilliant woman who found a career path which did not force her to be any more intimate with people than was comfortable for her. Her career smoothly advanced from graduate school to a tenured position in a well known university. She writes beautifully in a rather dry and academic style and has published numerous articles and books in her field.Jane’s Adaptation: Jane has always valued the academic life because she felt it fit her personality. She enjoyed bring in charge in the classroom and having it be her decision what and how to teach. She spent much of her free time doing research and writing or presenting at conferences.Jane married another academic who also had Schizoid Personality Disorder. They had a very emotionally cool, but satisfying marriage. Both were preoccupied with their own projects and did not require more than minimal contact with each other. They decided not to have children because they liked their life exactly as it was.Example—Patricia the Dental SurgeonPatricia, was a 54 year old dental surgeon when I first met her. She told me that she had found out very early in life that people were unpredictable and untrustworthy. Her parents, she said, had always promised to pay for her education, but at the last minute always found an excuse to refuse.She described her childhood as very bleak. Her parents were disinterested in her or verbally abusive. She said that she had known from around age seven that the only person she could count on was herself.Patricia got a scholarship to college and worked in the school bookstore to pay for her other expenses. She took out loans to go to dental school.Patricia’s Adaptation: Patricia said that she had chosen dentistry as a profession because she did not have to work as part of a team with other doctors. She also liked that her patients were mainly unable to talk to her because they had to keep their mouths open and still while she worked on them.Punchline: Everyone needs to feel connected to other people, including those who have made Schizoid Adaptations. Unfortunately most people with Schizoid Personality Disorder find very intimate and uninterrupted interpersonal contact potentially threatening. Many, however, find ways to adapt to their intrapsychic conflicts by finding romantic relationships and work situations that allow them to manage their proximity to other people.A2AElinor Greenberg, PhD, CGPIn private practice in NYC and the author of the book: Borderline, Narcissistic, and Schizoid Adaptations: The Pursuit of Love, Admiration, and Safety.www.elinorgreenberg.com

Well, I can answer this based on my experience as a schooler in Japan.Okay, it’s April 2nd. You are turning 13 this year. You have graduated from the Elementary school you have gone through for over half of your life. After the tearful goodbye ceremony with your friends and teachers with who you've gone through for over half of your life time, you are excited to see what’s coming next. A life which many describe as the happiest moment in life is just about to start. You have read many manga about “Seisyun” or “teenage romance” and you heart starts to pump up and down and refuses to stop, creating a small panic.And once you wore that fancy school uniform for the first time in your life and enter the gate, you realize the ultimate truth…1.Almost half of the teenagers become gender separated in secondary education.In fact, I was one of them. In Japan, the idea of gender separation among secondary education is very popular. Most of the top ranking Junior and Senior high schools are gender separated, usually in the form of boy schools and girl schools. Many penologists in japan believe students perform better if the gender is separated, citing the difference in growth and brain structure. There are also many schools which separate males and females in different buildings of the same campus. Obviously, for those teens, it is impossible to do any sort of “romantic high school dating” as shown in many anime as they are physically separated from the other sex.2.The Japanese Jurisdiction is all-out hostile against teenage romance.When the teens decide to start a relationship, they must face many legal challenges.When laws come into teenage relationships, usually people think about the Age of Consent. However, in the case of Japan, its not. The age of consent in Japan is 13, significantly lower then the world average of 16.Instead, each prefecture have these really confusing laws called “Youth Robust Development Act” or something of a similar name which intends to “protect the development of adolescents” in their own prefecture. They regulate teens and adults from doing certain things that might disrupt the healthy development of the teenagers with rules like “don’t go outside after 10 pm” or “don’t consume adult products” “don’t do this!, do that! blah, blah, blah”, which in fact are different depending on the prefectures.However, every prefecture has a provision banning “the performance of obscene acts” among teenagers. This was originally intended to counter child prostitution, and is now frequently bantered as a “dating regulation act” by lawyers due to the vagueness of the term “obscene”.The interpretation of this law depends on each prefecture and city, ranging from prostitution involving sexual penetration, to innocent romantic body gestures such as holding hands. Also, out of 47 prefectures with this law, only a handful of them have a provision which specifically declares anyone under 18 not to be punished, meaning that the rest of them would be open to prosecution. Although it is very unlikely for minors to be prosecuted for dating another teenager, it is very likely that the minor would be detained by the police if deemed “inappropriate” based on the interpretation of the laws and their own sense which would certainly upset his or her parents and the school they go to.In fact, during my high school senior year, one of my friends (age 18) was arrested by a police after he was caught dating with her classmate who was only several months younger. He was interrogated by the police for a week before being released.I remember one of my law professors saying “Stay away from anyone under the age of 20, unless you are absolutely determined to do so.” The only way to get away from being prosecuted by these laws is by having both partners be absolutely determined to engage in the relationship, because an absolute serious relationship can never be interpreted as “Obscene”, and (never should be) as right to date is a right protected by the constitution.However, the problem is how many teenagers engage in a serious relationship with the view of marriage? Even if they are, can they survive the notoriously intense interrogations of the police which can last for weeks? In fact, most of the time, one of the partners would confess, which immediately results in legal prosecution which is a death sentence for the careers of both, the victim and the condemned.I personally think this situation is very hypocritical because if you go to places like Umeda, Kabukicyo, and Akihabara, you'll see many hostess club engaging in child prostitution without any problems while countless of innocent relationships are being intervened by the police.However, on the bright side, teens wouldn’t have to think about this in the first place because…3.Teenagers are strictly controlled by civilian meansFirst, Schools. As you can understand from above that teenage romance can easily flame up in an unpredictable manner. Obviously many, particularly private schools would be nervous about their hormone driven teenagers being unleashed.It can potentially cause a devastating incident for the schools if one or more of their students were involved in a scandal. The school may lose the trust from the student’s parents or the PTA. If the incident made it to the headlines of those hungry presses, even worse, on the daily evening news, the situation would completely go out of control. Like the presses of the west, Japanese presses love sexual scandals and pursue them at all costs. Everyone’s worst nightmare! This almost happened in my brother’s school last year. His school was sued by a girls school over an incident involving a student. Fortunately, the case ended with a settlement and did not escalate beyond there; however, it must have been a horrifying moment for the school managers.To deter this problem, it is not uncommon for schools to regulate teens from dating. However, most schools do not have written rules like “Students are prohibited from contacting with the opposite gender other than in academic circumstances” on their rule books. That is way too straight forward and controversial. Instead, they write something like “Students are expected to act as the role model representative for our school with over 100 years of history” or “Any action which contradicts with the spirit of academia is prohibited”.Writing vague rules to counter controversial subjects is a common solution in Japanese organizations. This way, the school authorities can crack down on teenage dating, by saying ,for example, that “dating contradicts with the spirit of hard work and learning”.It’s not just the school which enforce strict rules. Recently, there was an invention which shifted the whole topic to a whole new levelSMARTPHONES.Smartphones have everything from texting, GPS, Camera, Microphone, and personal data. The invention of this super-device has changed everything. When these devices spread around the population around 2010, teenagers suddenly became a subject of complete surveillance from the public. The GPS can now track down where the student lives. People can now take a picture and send them on SMS. Now, the public can file a “student wrongdoing complaint” with photographic evidence. The school they are enrolled in can be easily identified by their uniforms.Also, Smartphones fueled additional paranoia among the parents and PTAs demanding new stricter regulation, laws to schools, and the local lawmakers.But the good news is that the teens shouldn't care about the consequence of their horny behavior because…4.There is no time or chance to date at all anyway.Literally. Teenage years are the most restrictive and busy times throughout the entire life for many people in Japan. Once the school is over, most teens would go to Cram Schools as late as 10 or 11 pm. The aforementioned, along with potential commuting hours every day, going to schools, and cram schools give the teen very little free time. Even during Sundays, when most cram schools are closed, students have to do the homework for the entire week. Furthermore, during the summer breaks which last for about a month, there are often extensive summer schools for the entire day which last weeks. There is almost no time for many teens to go out on a date. Teenagers make free time by sacrificing their sleep.Parents are often competitive about the performance of their child and are usually not happy about their kids wasting time dating.5.The culture obsession of teenage romanceFinally, and I personally believe to be the largest reason for this issue, is the cultural obsession of dating.The cultural obsession of teen dating is real here. The majority of the top selling cultural products have something to do with teen dating. High school haiku contest, most of the awarded winners are related to dating. This obsession on middle and high school dating means a lot of intervention, by both the public and the surrounding people while dating. I was sick and tired of hearing all those grown ups enthusiastically asking “where’s your girlfriend?” “Do you like this girl?” “did you stare at her?” “Why not wear this?” Blah, Blah, Blah!!! Every time in school, the professor endlessly talks about his first girlfriend and how she “degraded” with age. Every time while at home my parents discuss about what type of girl would fit me. Every time I came back from cram school, my surroundings ask if I communicated with a girl or not, or what kind of girls were there. On the TV are frequent topics about recent trend in school dating blah, blah, blah…These public obsession makes it really hard for teens to rationally engage in a relationship. Once a partner is formed, the news would spread through the entire community and its not just embarrassing but a whole a lot of intervention would be likely by everyone around.Hence, I never dated, as so many others. The reality was just too sick for me to handle. Although I came across aspiring girls occasionally, I never had a chance to date and probably never will at least until I graduate from college. I had too many traumatic experiences. I need to mature more.