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Schizoid personality in childhood: a controlled follow-up study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

Sula Wolff  and
Jonathan Chick
Sula Wolff
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological Medicine, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh; MRC Unit for Epidemiological Studies in Psychiatry, Royal Edinburgh Hospital
Jonathan Chick*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological Medicine, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh; MRC Unit for Epidemiological Studies in Psychiatry, Royal Edinburgh Hospital
*
1Address for correspondence: Dr Jonathan Chick, MRC Unit for Epidemiological Studies in Psychiatry, University Department of Psychiatry, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Morningside Park, Edinburgh EH10 5HF.
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Twenty-two boys with schizoid personality were followed-up some 10 years later and compared with a matched control group with other diagnoses who had been referred to the same child psychiatry department. The diagnostic category is shown to have predictive validity. A start has been made towards an operational definition of the syndrome.

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Psychological Medicine , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , February 1980 , pp. 85 - 100
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1980

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