schizotypal personality disorder

 

The schizotypal disorder is a new psychiatric concept developed by Spitzer in the late 1970s and is a relative of schizophrenic patients included in adoption studies conducted by Ketty, Wender, and Rosenthal over the same decade. Based on an analysis of the characteristics of.

 

This entity is based on old observations from the beginning of the last century that show behavioral traits common to schizophrenic relatives. Its condition within our current nosography remains questionable and is sometimes classified as a personality disorder and sometimes as a schizophrenia spectrum disorder. It presents the origin of this concept, which arises from two complementary approaches, a familial approach and a clinical approach of sporadic cases and redefines the framework underlying the diagnostic approach and its continuity to the current classification.

Historical origin cannot summarize the disorder, and it seems important to redefine the multidimensional features of schizotypal personality disorder, generally a three-factor model. Indeed, dimensional models of psychosis are being established as being conceptually and clinically useful. Recent studies on the dimension of psychosis show the evolution of the concept of schizophrenia, which was first defined as part of the spectrum of schizophrenia. This now seems to be more broadly related to the concept of single psychosis, including bipolar disorder.

 

People with these personality disorders have long-standing patterns of thought and behavior that differ from what society considers to be common or normal. Their strict personality can cause problems and affect many areas of life, including social and work. People with serious personality disorders also generally have poor coping abilities and have difficulty establishing healthy relationships.

 Unlike people with anxiety disorders who know they have a problem but cannot control it, people with a personality disorder are generally unaware that they have a problem and can control it.

The dimension of psychosis appears to be associated with different family groups and the risk of psychosis, suggesting that it is highlighted by different physiological and pathological processes. Therefore, a dimensional approach helps to elucidate the genetic heterogeneity of the disease.

 

People with schizotypal personality disorders have strange behaviors, speech patterns, thoughts, and perceptions. Others often describe them as strange or eccentric. People with this disability can also:

 dress, speak, or act in strange or unusual ways: Be suspicious and delusional, feel uncomfortable or anxious in a social situation due to distrust of others, have few friends, feel very uncomfortable with intimacy, indulge in imagination and fantasy Tend to be stiff and awkward with others Emotionally distant, distant, or cold Emotional reactions are limited and have odd beliefs or magical thinking.

 

People with schizotypal personality disorders rarely receive treatment for the disorder itself. When they see a doctor, it is often due to related disorders such as depression and anxiety