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Resources for SPD

QuietMagic January 9th, 2022

Feel free to use this thread to share any resources, information, tips, personal experiences, or anything else that might be helpful for people who are experiencing SPD.

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QuietMagic OP January 24th, 2022

Post describing a healthy/adaptive schizoid personality style:
https://www.7cups.com/forum/PersonalityDisordersSupport_81/ResourcesInformationonPersonalityDisorders_459/Personalitystylesthehealthyversionofeachpersonalitydisorder_269564/#forum-post-2868456

A paper presenting a very empathetic perspective on schizoid tendencies:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/7142775_Some_Thoughts_about_Schizoid_Dynamics

I'd personally recommend anything you can find by Harry Guntrip on schizoid dynamics. I've felt like he has a perspective that is very deep/insightful while still being empathetic/validating and not too technical (compared to a lot of other psychoanalytic authors).
Harry Guntrip - The Schizoid Personality and the External World (1952) [Chapter 1 from Schizoid Phenomena, Object Relations, and the Self]
Harry Guntrip - The Schizoid Problem, Regression, and the Struggle to Preserve an Ego (1961) [Chapter 2 from Schizoid Phenomena, Object Relations, and the Self]

A doctoral dissertation presenting a psychodynamic treatment handbook for SPD:
https://digitalcommons.pepperdine.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1412&context=etd