Schizoid Books

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The Empty Core: An Object Relations Approach to Psychotherapy of the Schizoid Personality The Empty Core: An Object Relations Approach to Psychotherapy of the Schizoid Personality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as schizoid)
avg rating 4.00 — 48 ratings — published 1991
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Schizoid Phenomena, Object Relations and the Self (Karnac Classics) Schizoid Phenomena, Object Relations and the Self (Karnac Classics)
by (shelved 3 times as schizoid)
avg rating 4.47 — 173 ratings — published 1968
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The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as schizoid)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,572 ratings — published 1960
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Treatment of schizoid personality: an analytic psychotherapy handbook Treatment of schizoid personality: an analytic psychotherapy handbook (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 2 times as schizoid)
avg rating 4.41 — 17 ratings — published
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Borderline, Narcissistic, and Schizoid Adaptations: The Pursuit of Love, Admiration, and Safety Borderline, Narcissistic, and Schizoid Adaptations: The Pursuit of Love, Admiration, and Safety (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as schizoid)
avg rating 4.38 — 210 ratings — published
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Disorders of the Self: New Therapeutic Horizons: The Masterson Approach Disorders of the Self: New Therapeutic Horizons: The Masterson Approach (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as schizoid)
avg rating 4.30 — 37 ratings — published 1995
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Split Self/Split Object: Understanding and Treating Borderline, Narcissistic, and Schizoid Disorders Split Self/Split Object: Understanding and Treating Borderline, Narcissistic, and Schizoid Disorders (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as schizoid)
avg rating 3.83 — 23 ratings — published 1992
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Naked Lunch: The Restored Text Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as schizoid)
avg rating 3.46 — 99,928 ratings — published 1959
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Self Study: Notes on the Schizoid Condition (To Imagine a Form of Life, #5) Self Study: Notes on the Schizoid Condition (To Imagine a Form of Life, #5)
by (shelved 1 time as schizoid)
avg rating 3.92 — 63 ratings — published
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I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as schizoid)
avg rating 3.89 — 59,594 ratings — published 1967
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Investigations of a Dog Investigations of a Dog
by (shelved 1 time as schizoid)
avg rating 3.07 — 5,960 ratings — published 1922
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The Complete Stories The Complete Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as schizoid)
avg rating 4.33 — 28,785 ratings — published 1915
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Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as schizoid)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,372,697 ratings — published 2018
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Die heilige Cäcilie oder die Gewalt der Musik Die heilige Cäcilie oder die Gewalt der Musik (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as schizoid)
avg rating 3.28 — 108 ratings — published 1810
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Broken Structures: Severe Personality Disorders and Their Treatment Broken Structures: Severe Personality Disorders and Their Treatment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as schizoid)
avg rating 4.19 — 31 ratings — published 1992
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Schizoid Personality Disorder: Encouraging Relationships, Growth and Bonding in Persons with Schizoid or Social Anxiety Disorder Schizoid Personality Disorder: Encouraging Relationships, Growth and Bonding in Persons with Schizoid or Social Anxiety Disorder (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as schizoid)
avg rating 3.80 — 5 ratings — published 2015
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El silencio de las sirenas El silencio de las sirenas (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as schizoid)
avg rating 3.65 — 433 ratings — published
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Fragment of a Novel Fragment of a Novel
by (shelved 1 time as schizoid)
avg rating 3.25 — 385 ratings — published 1819
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Dating or Marrying a Schizoid Man: How to Win Over Your Schizoid Personality Disorder Partner (Transcend Mediocrity Book 145) Dating or Marrying a Schizoid Man: How to Win Over Your Schizoid Personality Disorder Partner (Transcend Mediocrity Book 145)
by (shelved 1 time as schizoid)
avg rating 3.25 — 4 ratings — published
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The Misunderstood Loner: Schizoid Personality Disorder (SPD): An Explanation of Schizoid Personality Disorder (Transcend Mediocrity Book 16) The Misunderstood Loner: Schizoid Personality Disorder (SPD): An Explanation of Schizoid Personality Disorder (Transcend Mediocrity Book 16)
by (shelved 1 time as schizoid)
avg rating 3.55 — 11 ratings — published 2015
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Schizoid Personality Disorder Schizoid Personality Disorder (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as schizoid)
avg rating 2.00 — 1 rating — published
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Eleven sons Eleven sons (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as schizoid)
avg rating 3.40 — 310 ratings — published 1914
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Neurosis and Human Growth: The Struggle Towards Self-Realization Neurosis and Human Growth: The Struggle Towards Self-Realization (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as schizoid)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,683 ratings — published 1950
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Psychoanalytic Diagnosis: Understanding Personality Structure in the Clinical Process Psychoanalytic Diagnosis: Understanding Personality Structure in the Clinical Process (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as schizoid)
avg rating 4.51 — 4,240 ratings — published 1994
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A Country Doctor A Country Doctor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as schizoid)
avg rating 3.67 — 8,098 ratings — published 1918
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Wedding Preparations in the Country Wedding Preparations in the Country (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as schizoid)
avg rating 3.02 — 524 ratings — published 1925
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Description of a Struggle Description of a Struggle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as schizoid)
avg rating 3.23 — 965 ratings — published 1909
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The Renegade or a Confused Spirit The Renegade or a Confused Spirit (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as schizoid)
avg rating 3.55 — 130 ratings — published
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The Tell-Tale Heart The Tell-Tale Heart (Library Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as schizoid)
avg rating 4.24 — 128,769 ratings — published 1843
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The Raven The Raven (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as schizoid)
avg rating 4.29 — 173,714 ratings — published 1845
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The Nose The Nose (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as schizoid)
avg rating 3.71 — 19,778 ratings — published 1836
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The Metamorphosis The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as schizoid)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,497,573 ratings — published 1915
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Ghosts Ghosts (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as schizoid)
avg rating 3.82 — 18,877 ratings — published 1881
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Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as schizoid)
avg rating 3.42 — 343 ratings — published 1915
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The Warden Of The Tomb The Warden Of The Tomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as schizoid)
avg rating 3.06 — 162 ratings — published 1936
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The Hunter Gracchus The Hunter Gracchus (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as schizoid)
avg rating 3.29 — 325 ratings — published 2011
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The Book of the Law The Book of the Law (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as schizoid)
avg rating 3.78 — 5,506 ratings — published 1904
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The Trial The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as schizoid)
avg rating 3.94 — 410,530 ratings — published 1925
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Ethan Frome Ethan Frome (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as schizoid)
avg rating 3.46 — 140,638 ratings — published 1911
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A Hunger Artist (Short Prose of Franz Kafka) A Hunger Artist (Short Prose of Franz Kafka)
by (shelved 1 time as schizoid)
avg rating 4.09 — 24,015 ratings — published 1924
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Crime and Punishment Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as schizoid)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,123,652 ratings — published 1866
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Animal Farm Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as schizoid)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,699,688 ratings — published 1945
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Molloy / Malone Dies / The Unnamable Molloy / Malone Dies / The Unnamable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as schizoid)
avg rating 4.28 — 9,564 ratings — published 1958
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Gestalt Therapy Verbatim Gestalt Therapy Verbatim (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as schizoid)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,303 ratings — published 1968
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Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as schizoid)
avg rating 4.18 — 8,928 ratings — published 1972
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Sexus (The Rosy Crucifixion, #1) Sexus (The Rosy Crucifixion, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as schizoid)
avg rating 4.00 — 10,335 ratings — published 1949
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“External relationships seem to have been emptied by a massive withdrawal of the real libidinal self. Effective mental activity has disappeared into a hidden inner world; the patient's conscious ego is emptied of vital feeling and action, and seems to have become unreal. You may catch glimpses of intense activity going on in the inner world through dreams and fantasies, but the patient's conscious ego merely reports these as if it were a neutral observer not personally involved in the inner drama of which it is a detached spectator. The attitude to the outer world is the same: non-involvement and observation at a distance without any feeling, like that of a press reporter describing a social gathering of which he is not a part, in which he has no personal interest, and by which he is bored. Such activity as is carried on may appear to be mechanical. When a schizoid state supervenes, the conscious ego appears to be in a state of suspended animation in between two worlds, internal and external, and having no real relationships with either of them. It has decreed an emotional and impulsive standstill, on the basis of keeping out of effective range and being unmoved.”
Harry Guntrip, Schizoid Phenomena, Object Relations and the Self

“The schizoid repression of feeling, and retreat from emotional relationships, may, however, go much further and produce a serious breakdown of constructive effort. Then the unhappy sufferer from incapacitating conflicts will succumb to real futility: nothing seems worth doing, interest dies, the world seems unreal, the ego feels depersonalized. Suicide may be attempted in a cold, calculated way to the accompaniment of such thoughts as 'I am useless, bad for everybody, I'll be best out of the way.' One patient who had never reached that point, said: 'I feel I love people in an impersonal way; it seems a false position, hypocritical. Perhaps I don't do any loving. I'm terrified when I see young people go off and being successful and I'm at a dead bottom, absolute dereliction, excommunicate.”
Harry Guntrip, Schizoid Phenomena, Object Relations and the Self

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