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Schizotypal Personality Disorder

Medical Definition: 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.
Also Called: Incipient Schizophrenia,Schizophrenia, Latent,Schizophrenia, Pseudoneurotic,Pseudopsychopathic Schizophrenia,Schizophrenia, Borderline
Previously Indexed: Schizophrenia (1966-1971)

Schizotypal Personality Disorder Medical Definitions and Terms

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