Schizothymia Explained

Schizothymia is a temperament related to schizophrenia in a way analogous to cyclothymia's relationship with bipolar disorder.^[1] Schizothymia was proposed by Ernst Kretschmer when examining body types of schizophrenic patients. Schizothymia is defined by reduced affect display, a high degree of introversion, limited social cognition, and withdrawing from social relations generally. Nevertheless, individuals with such personality traits may achieve relatively affable social relations and a measure of affectivity situationally. As a kind of temperament, schizothymic personality traits are thought to be innate rather than the result of socialization or a lack thereof (Nature versus Nurture).

See also

• Psychoticism
• Schizophrenia
• Schizoid personality disorder
• Schizotypal personality disorder
• Schizoaffective disorder
• Schizophreniform disorder
• Schizotypy

External links

• Eysenck HJ . Cyclothymia and schizothymia as a dimension of personality. I. Historical review . Journal of Personality . 19 . 2 . 123–52 . December 1950 . 14814596 . 10.1111/j.1467-6494.1950.tb01092.x.
• Häfner H . What is schizophrenia? Changing perspectives in epidemiology . European Archives of Psychiatry and Neurological Sciences . 238 . 2 . 63–72 . 1988 . 10.1007/BF00452781 . 3061822.

Notes and References

1. Book: Green . Bradley . Schizothymia . Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences . 19 July 2017 . 1–3 . 10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_945-1 . 978-3-319-28099-8 . http://springer.iq-technikum.de/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_945-1 . 23 December 2020.