A personality disorder in which there are oddities of thought (magical thinking, paranoid ideation, suspiciousness), perception (illusions, depersonalization), speech (digressive, vague, overelaborate), and behavior (inappropriate affect in social interactions, frequently social isolation) that are not severe enough to characterize schizophrenia.
Entry Version
SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONALITY DIS
Entry Term(s)
Incipient Schizophrenia
Latent Schizophrenia
Personality Disorder, Schizotypal
Pseudoneurotic Schizophrenia
Pseudopsychopathic Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia, Borderline
Schizophrenia, Latent
Schizophrenia, Pseudoneurotic
NLM Classification #
WM 190.5.S4
Previous Indexing
Schizophrenia (1966-1971)
Public MeSH Note
81; was SCHIZOPHRENIA, LATENT 1973-80
Online Note
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A personality disorder in which there are oddities of thought (magical thinking, paranoid ideation, suspiciousness), perception (illusions, depersonalization), speech (digressive, vague, overelaborate), and behavior (inappropriate affect in social interactions, frequently social isolation) that are not severe enough to characterize schizophrenia.
