title: Schizoid personality in childhood: a controlled follow-up study.
abstract: 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.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000150:complications; D009228:Mysticism; D012557:Schizoid Personality Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000209:etiology; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D012917:Social Adjustment; D014705:Verbal Behavior