Avoidants

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Avoidants who become schizoid

Some personalities who are avoidant in origin, may become schizoid.
The frustrations and humiliations they experience generate an overwhelming anger.

So-called “defence mechanisms” provide a solution to the conflict by isolating and repressing
their anger and their emotions.

The person, who is left with few emotions, has become schizoid – not a pure schizoid, but an intermediate schizoid.
This ‘converted’ schizoid yearns for social relations, but is incapable.
The resultant anxiety, rather than the social indifference, leads to intense loneliness

It is not only avoidants who stand the risk of becoming schizoid, but also obsessives.

DSM-I and DSM-II integrate schizoid and avoidant in the same group,
while DSM-III place the avoidant in a different group.
ICD-10 theorizes that the schizoid fantasizes, but this
is more true of the schizoid-avoidant than of the pure schizoid.

I mention this here merely for clarity, and for the sake of interest.

And continue on the premise that ICD-10 and DSM-IV are similar.

( This web page is available …………..in Spanish ………….in French )

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