F21

Applicable To

• Borderline schizophrenia

• Latent schizophrenia

• Latent schizophrenic reaction

• Prepsychotic schizophrenia

• Prodromal schizophrenia

• Pseudoneurotic schizophrenia

• Pseudopsychopathic schizophrenia

• Schizotypal personality disorder

Clinical Information

• A disorder characterized by an enduring pattern of inability to establish close relationships coupled with cognitive or perceptual distortions, odd beliefs and speech, and eccentric behavior and appearance.

• 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.

• Personality disorder characterized by eccentric thoughts and appearance, inappropriate affect and behavior, extreme social anxiety, and limited interpersonal interaction.

Details

• Asperger’s disorder

• Autistic psychopathy

• Schizoid disorder of childhood