Schizotypal personality disorder, or simply schizotypal disorder, is a personality disorder that is characterized by a need for social isolation, odd behaviour and thinking, and often unconventional beliefs such as being convinced of having extra sensory abilities. The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (most commonly known by the abbreviation ICD) provides codes to classify diseases and a wide variety of signs, symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social circumstances and external causes of injury or disease. ... The following codes are used with International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems. ... // F00-F99 - Mental and behavioural disorders (F00-F09) Organic, including symptomatic, mental disorders (F00) Dementia in Alzheimers disease (F01) Vascular dementia (F011) Multi-infarct dementia (F02) Dementia in other diseases classified elsewhere (F020) Dementia in Picks disease (F021) Dementia in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (F022) Dementia in Huntingtons... The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (most commonly known by the abbreviation ICD) provides codes to classify diseases and a wide variety of signs, symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social circumstances and external causes of injury or disease. ... The following is a list of codes for International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems. ... Personality disorders form a class of mental disorders that are characterized by long-lasting rigid patterns of thought and actions. ... Please wikify (format) this article or section as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... Extra-sensory perception (ESP) is defined in parapsychology as the ability to aquire information by paranormal means. ...

There is a high rate of comorbidity with other personality disorders. McGlashan et al. (2000) stated that this may be due to overlapping criteria with other personality disorders, such as avoidant personality disorder and paranoid personality disorder^[1]. In medicine and in psychiatry, comorbidity is either The presence of one or more disorders (or diseases) in addition to a primary disease or disorder; or The effect of such additional disorders or diseases. ... Avoidant personality disorder (sometimes abbreviated APD or AvPD), or anxious personality disorder, is a personality disorder characterized by a pervasive pattern of social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, extreme sensitivity to negative evaluation and avoiding social interaction. ... Paranoid personality disorder is a psychiatric diagnosis that denotes a personality disorder with paranoid features. ...

Mnemonic

A mnemonic that can be used to remember the criteria for schizotypal personality disorder is ME PECULIAR^[2][3]: Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: English mnemonics A mnemonic (pronounced in Received Pronunciation) is a memory aid, and most serve an educational purpose. ...

• M - magical thinking that influences behavior, superstitiousness or the paranormal
• E - eccentric behavior or appearance

• P - paranoid ideation
• E - experiences unusual perceptions
• C - constricted affect
• U - unusual thinking & speech
• L - lacks friends
• I - ideas of reference
• A - anxiety (socially)
• R - rule out psychotic disorders & pervasive developmental disorder

In the history of religion, Magical thinking is a kind of non-scientific causal reasoning. ... Paranormal is an umbrella term used to describe a wide variety of reported anomalous phenomena. ... For other senses of this word, see paranoia (disambiguation). ... Ideation is the process of forming and relating ideas. ... In psychology, affect is the scientific term used to describe a subjects externally displayed mood. ... Ideas of reference or delusions of reference involve a person having a belief or perception that irrelevant, unrelated or innocuous things in the world are referring to them directly or have special personal significance. ... Psychosis is a psychiatric classification for a mental state in which the perception of reality is distorted. ...

References

1. ^ McGlashan, T.H., Grilo, C.M., Skodol, A.E., Gunderson, J.G., Shea, M.T., Morey, L.C., et al. (2000). The collaborative longitudinal personality disorders study: Baseline axis I/II and II/II diagnostic co-occurrence. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 102, 256-264.
2. ^ Pinkofsky HB. Mnemonics for DSM-IV personality disorders. Psychiatr Serv. 1997 Sep;48(9):1197-8. PMID 9285984.
3. ^ Personality Disorders. www.personalityresearch.org. URL: http://www.personalityresearch.org/pd.html. Accessed May 2, 2006.

External links

• DSM-IV TR diagnostic criteria for Schizotypal Personality Disorder.
• ICD-10 diagnostic criteria for Schizotypal Disorder.

See also

• Paranoid personality disorder
• Schizoid personality disorder
• Schizophrenia
• Schizotypy

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