Psychiatry and Psychology

Schizotypal Personality Disorder

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.

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Abstract

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.

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Synonyms

25 entry terms
  • Personality Disorder, Schizotypal
  • Disorder, Schizotypal Personality
  • Disorders, Schizotypal Personality
  • Personality Disorders, Schizotypal
  • Schizotypal Personality Disorders
  • Incipient Schizophrenia
  • Latent Schizophrenia
  • Pseudoneurotic Schizophrenia
  • Pseudopsychopathic Schizophrenia
  • Schizophrenia, Borderline
  • Schizophrenia, Latent
  • Schizophrenia, Pseudoneurotic
  • Borderline Schizophrenia
  • Borderline Schizophrenias
  • Incipient Schizophrenias
  • Latent Schizophrenias
  • Pseudoneurotic Schizophrenias
  • Pseudopsychopathic Schizophrenias
  • Schizophrenia, Incipient
  • Schizophrenia, Pseudopsychopathic
  • Schizophrenias, Borderline
  • Schizophrenias, Incipient
  • Schizophrenias, Latent
  • Schizophrenias, Pseudoneurotic
  • Schizophrenias, Pseudopsychopathic

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31 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, virology.

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History Note

81; was SCHIZOPHRENIA, LATENT 1972-80 (Prov 1972)

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Previous Indexing

  • Schizophrenia (1966-1971)

MeSH Hierarchy

Tree Number

  1. F03w.675w.725w

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NLM Classification

WM 190.5.S4

AMA Style

References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Schizotypal Personality Disorder. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D012569. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D012569
  2. Schizotypal Personality Disorder. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizotypal_personality_disorder
  3. Schizotypal Personality Disorder. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q861560