title: 'Schizoid' personality in childhood and adult life. I: The vagaries of diagnostic labelling.
abstract: The literature is reviewed on children variously described as having 'schizoid' personality disorders, Asperger's syndrome, and schizotypal personality disorders, with the aim of clarifying the nature of these clinical syndromes, and in particular the features of those children whose follow-up characteristics are described in the following two papers.
authors.affiliation: University of Edinburgh Department of Psychiatry, Royal Edinburgh Hospital.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wolff
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D010553:Personality Development; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D012557:Schizoid Personality Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D012917:Social Adjustment