Question: Are Narcissists also schizoids? Answer: This is not a question about dual diagnosis or co-morbidity. The implications of a positive answer run much deeper than a mere listing of traits and behaviours. This is the definition of the Schizoid Personality Disorder SPD in the DSM IV 1994: A. A pervasive pattern of detachment from social relationships and a restricted range of expression of emotions in interpersonal settings, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by four or more of the following: 1 neither desires nor enjoys close relationships, including being part of a...
split off from a part of oneself. That narcissism is such a confusing category is in large part because its drive-theoretic definition, the libidinal cathexis of the self - in a word, self-love - seems far removed from the experience of narcissism, as characterized by a loss of, or split in, the self. Fairbairn"s and Guntrip"s view of narcissism as an excessive attachment of the ego to internal objects roughly analogous to Freud"s narcissistic, as opposed to object, love, resulting in various splits in the ego necessary to maintain these attachments, allows us to penetrate this confusion" page 67.