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- adjective psychology pertaining to or displaying mild signs of
schizophrenia ; pertaining to or havingschizotypy
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Examples
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This intermediate stage is variously called schizotypal, schizoid, schizophrenia spectrum, or schizotaxic and is difficult to investigate because people fear that if they are too forthcoming about voices or exotic fears and suspicions, they will be seen as mad.
Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011
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This intermediate stage is variously called schizotypal, schizoid, schizophrenia spectrum, or schizotaxic and is difficult to investigate because people fear that if they are too forthcoming about voices or exotic fears and suspicions, they will be seen as mad.
Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011
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One such subtle version is called schizotypal personality.
Is Everybody Crazy? 2008
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The diagostic criteria is more narrow since the creation of similar and related disorders such as schizotypal personality disorder.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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Stanford's Robert Sapolsky, one of the most interesting anthropologists I've heard lecture, gives us 90 minutes on the evolutionary basis for literal religious belief, "metamagical thinking," schizotypal personality and so on, explaining how evolutionarily, the mild schizophrenic expression we called "schizotypal personality" have enjoyed increased reproductive opportunities.
Boing Boing 2009
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Evolution, religion, schizophrenia and the schizotypal personality
Boing Boing 2009
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They also tend to attract psychiatric diagnoses such as trauma and dissociative disorders, bipolar disorders, psychosis, and borderline and schizotypal personality disorders.
God Attachment Dr. Tim Clinton 2010
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Maybe there's just a little schizotypal strand to my psyche that gets a tad grandiose in the face of the religious, a wee bit Antichrist Superstar, Son of Sodom, Satan wants me for a sunbeam, and all that (hey, he is the Bringer-of-Light, after all).
Archive 2008-12-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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They also tend to attract psychiatric diagnoses such as trauma and dissociative disorders, bipolar disorders, psychosis, and borderline and schizotypal personality disorders.
God Attachment Dr. Tim Clinton 2010
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They also tend to attract psychiatric diagnoses such as trauma and dissociative disorders, bipolar disorders, psychosis, and borderline and schizotypal personality disorders.
God Attachment Dr. Tim Clinton 2010
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