Hey, Deservant Listeners, this is Chapter 6.

I think my last chapter on my deep dive on Skeizoid Personality Disorder.

I will start this chapter talking about the history of the construct of

skeezoid personality.

I will start in the late 1800s,

which is where a lot of our ideas of psychology first started to coalesce.

So among the early clinicians and researchers and philosophers,

mainly in Europe, who spent at least some of their efforts with what we now call psychology.

There were some proto observations of what we would probably call skezoid today. But their language system and their labels

were very different back then. Plus no one in the world thought about psychology

the way we think of it today, but some ideas were emerging that would be familiar to us today.

Like with Charco, the French physician, or Pierre Jeunet, the French physician, or Emil Krepelen, the German psychiatrist, all are what we might call

the forerunners of psychology. They predated Freud, Freud actually was following in the

footsteps of these people, particularly Jeanne and Charco. So they would describe a lot of things and seemingly were observing

some skezoid individuals and describing them within their peculiar language

system peculiar to us today.

So let's skip forward to 1908 and we have Oigan Bloyler who is a Swiss psychiatrist.

In 1908, he was the first to coin the term skeezoid.

He actually used that term.

He was a contemporary of Sigmund Freud. He liked Freud's theory but later found

the psycho analytic movement to be too rigid, which was a common criticism of the psycho analytic movement, meaning that Sigmund Freud

himself and his followers would not allow for innovation or debate or criticism, which was I think a result of

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