Hey Deservant listeners, this is Chapter 4 in my deep dive on Skezoid Personality Disorder,

I thought I would provide a composite case example, but first let me introduce the podcast, and my name is Dr Hahn I'm a therapist and a professor and this is the

podcast called Psychology in Seattle that's been going on for 15 years since 2008.

So this case example is a little bit of a different

angle but let me get into it. So a couple came to me and they said they were

on the brink of divorce due to severe conflict about everything as they put it.

They fought about everything. I assessed their dynamic and their individual personalities, which is my way, and I eventually

conceptualized the husband as suffering from skeezoid personality, and the wife I conceptualize as suffering from preoccupied attachment.

Not severe but moderate.

This configuration often occurs where you have a distant partner or a distancing partner in the skezoid person and the

other partner is a very pursuing partner or a preoccupied partner.

And also the reason why this configuration often happens and can work well together but also

could very much aggravate each other is that they both

emulate each other's early relational trauma in that for this couple in

particular she had an abandoning father which resulted in the

relational traumas that resulted in the defense and the approach to

attachment that we call preoccupied or anxious depending on what system you're using.

And he had a very invasive and narcissistic mother and that's what resulted in him developing schizoid and also an

avoidant distancing style with attachments. So long story short I treated them

for several years we worked on a number of things but we

worked a lot on their self-awareness, their awareness of their emotions, particularly

his awareness of emotions, their key relational traumas, and how those traumas are often triggered by their partner, and how to defend against those triggers, how their defenses, and how their issues work to actually trigger each other and create a feedback loop, etc.

...