"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." PERSONALITY DISORDERS SHAPE how people think about themselves and others and relate to other people.

Last week, we explored paranoid personality disorder, stepping into Cluster A of personality disorders. We saw how deep mistrust and suspicion shape a person’s life and relationships, often without ...

My clients with schizoid personality disorder have experienced some combination of abuse, lack of attunement, neglect, and extreme intrusiveness in their early childhood. Many of them were also born ...

Schizoid PD is characterized by emotional detachment and social disinterest, while schizotypal PD involves eccentric behavior, odd beliefs, and transient psychotic-like symptoms. Schizoid personality ...