Treatment of schizoid personality: an analytic psychotherapy handbook

by Zachary Wheeler

323 pages, Unknown Binding

Published January 1, 2013

Reviews

[Lulu · Rating 4 out of 5]

“This is quite possibly the most comprehensive resource available on SPD. It is a doctoral dissertation that includes nearly anything an individual may want to know about the disorder, including the history of SPD, diagnostic tools (including detailed differential diagnoses), what it looks like, notable features of schizoids, and treatment.”


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[Christopher Timmerman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Finally a readable book on schizoid personality.

[Håkon Mjelde · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's a very comprehensive and detailed dissertation on the schizoid psyche, and the resistance one might experience in trying to deal with it from both the therapist and patient point of view. It offers great insight into the issues and mindset, and how it developed as a category, and psychological and social factors that could lead to it. I found the ways countertransference works to be particularly interesting.

It summarizes the literature quite well, offering insight into this rather rare disorder. I know from personal experience how seldom people with schizoid seek treatment and thus also how little researched it is, and this dissertation offers a constructive way forward in dealing with a broad range of issues, both developmental and structural.

[Alexander · Rating 4 out of 5]

Summarises a great deal of current literature on schizoid, quotes a fair number of other authors and has excerpts of dialogue found in other literature. Gives a good enough description of the schizoid PD and the different ways it can manifest. Also as the title suggests it tells you all about the different defense mechanisms schizoid patients may present a therapist and gives a heads up of what one might be in for should one tackle the challenge which is a schizoid patient.