An Annotated Bibliography

Keeping track of my research into dissociative disorders, schizospectrum disorders, and psychosis. Yes, this is relevant to my personal mental health, no this is not a tumblr I plan to discuss that on. Hopefully these resources will be helpful to others people.

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The psychoanalytic use of the term schizoid derives from the observations of “schisms” between the internal life and the externally observable life of the schizoid individual (cf. Laing, 1965). For example, schizoid people are overtly detached, yet they describe in therapy a deep longing for closeness and compelling fantasies of intimate involvement. They appear self-sufficient, and yet anyone who gets to know them well can attest to the depth of their emotional need. They can be absent-minded at the same time that they are acutely vigilant. They may seem completely nonreactive, yet suffer an exquisite level of sensitivity. They may look affectively blunted while internally coping with what one of my schizoid friends calls “protoaffect,” the experience of being frighteningly overpowered by intense emotion. They may seem utterly indifferent to sex while nourishing a sexually preoccupied, polymorphously elaborated fantasy life. They may strike others as unusually gentle souls, but an intimate may learn that they nourish elaborate fantasies of world destruction.

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From the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual

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From the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual

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From the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual

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For example, in the transition to a frank psychosis, these anomalies might be strengthened and thematized in the form of delusions, hallucinations, and passivity phenomena (e.g. the loss of presence or ‘‘mineness’’ of experience, can progress into a sensation of external influence and or a persecutory delusion) or enacted in terms of bizarre behavior (e.g. solipsism and existential reorientation or the loss of interpersonal common-sense, might induce a proactive non-mundane retreat or facilitate eccentric conducts with disregard of implicit behavioral codes). Similarly, with respect to the emergence of schizotypal features, SDs might act as developmental catalysts or amplifiers of - for example - introvertive self-absorption, magical idiosyncratic concerns, or schizotypal social aversiveness.

Raballo, A. (2012). Self-Disorders and the Experiential Core of Schizophrenia Spectrum Vulnerability. Psychiatrica Danubia, 24(Suppl. 3), 303-310.

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