Table of Contents

List of illustrations -- Foreword Leon Eisenberg -- Acknowledgements -- Author's note -- Introduction -- 1. Early observations -- 2. In search of a diagnostic label -- 3. A closer look at the childhood picture -- 4. The personality of loners in later life -- 5. The later life adjustment of schizoid boys -- 6. Schizoid girls in childhood and later life -- 7. What is the risk of later psychiatric disorder? -- 8. Is there a link with antisocial conduct? -- 9. Intellectual interests and giftedness -- 10. How can we best understand the condition? -- 11. How can we intervene most helpfully? -- 12. Schizoid personality, pretence and genius: two extraordinary people -- Appendix -- References -- Name index -- Subject index.

About the Author

Sula Wolff is Honorary Fellow at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh. She is the author of Children under Stress (1968; 2nd edn 1981) and Childhood and Human Nature: The Development of Personality (1989).

Reviews

..." closely and carefully argued ... This book is eminently readable and holds the reader's interest."
-Hans Steiner in "The Lancet