Schizoid personality disorder has a complicated past. It was originally conceptualized as the personality type associated with schizophrenia. However, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders states that schizoid personality disorder should not be diagnosed if the pattern of behavio...

Have you ever been curious about personality disorders even if you are not a psychology student? I'm sure a lot of us have. I am a psychology student but long before I declared it as my major the different ways people act have held my curiosity. One caught my attention because of all the informati...

Depression Depression is a word that is used by many people but understood by few. It is often taken and of context and interpreted as a bad day at work or an argument with a spouse. However, chances are that it is just an unhappy event of such. For some people, though, depression is a serious ...

While not to the extent of the paranoid, delusional schizophrenia that Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin suffers, in many ways, the novel "The Double" (Dostoyevsky, 1997) mirrors the social and moral attitudes of its author, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky. Some of these attitudes c...