What are the treatments for a schizoid personality disorder?

What are the treatments for a schizoid personality disorder?

Rhoda Hahn (Psychiatrist) gives expert video advice on: What are the signs of schizoid personality disorder?; Who is at risk for schizoid personality disorder?; What are the treatments for a schizoid personality disorder? and more...

Schizoid personality disorder patients don't come in for treatment. As far as they're concerned they are content with things the way they are; they don't see any reason to change it, so very little is known actually about treating this disorder. Again, there's almost no indication for medication since they will deny feeling any intense feelings of sadness, anxiety, or depression. Occasionally, when patients have gotten into treatment, they have been noted to enjoy some of the intellectual aspects of introspection. In other words, if they get into individual psychotherapy, they may actually enjoy the intellectual exercise of looking at themselves and thinking about their behaviour or why they do certain things. Some of these patients have been put in group settings, in which, again, they can become attached to the group in their own way; in their own little idiosyncratic way. It won't be obvious to the group that they have developed an attachment, but they will; they may actually enjoy coming to the group. However, that is a situation which is usually untenable because the group will kick them out after a while. If you're part of a group therapy setting it's not ok never to self-disclose, and at some point or other the group will turn on the individual and become quite angry with them that they're not sharing and making themselves vulnerable like everybody else is.