Online Medical Diagnosis of Medical and Psychiatric Disorders - The National Medical Society

Schizotypal Personality Disorder

(1) Does the patient have ideas of reference (ie, incorrect interpretations of casual incidents and external events as having a particular and unusual meaning specifically for the person)?	Yes No
(2) Does the patient have odd beliefs or magical thinking that influences behavior and is inconsistent with subcultural norms (eg, superstitiousness, belief in clairvoyance, telepathy, bizarre fantasies or preoccupations)?	Yes No
(3) Does the patient have unusual perceptual experiences, including bodily illusions?	Yes No
(4) Does the patient display odd thinking and speech (eg, vague, circumstantial, metaphorical, overelaborate, or stereotyped)?	Yes No
(5) Does the patient have suspiciousness or paranoid ideation?	Yes No
(6) Does the patient have an inappropriate or constricted affect?	Yes No
(7) Does the patient have behavior or appearance that is odd, eccentric, or peculiar?	Yes No
(8) Does the patient have lack of close friends or confidants other than first-degree relatives?	Yes No
(9) Does the patient have excessive social anxiety that does not diminish with familiarity and tends to be associated with paranoid fears rather than negative judgments about self?	Yes No
Does the patient display a pattern of discomfort with, and reduced capacity for, close relationships and five (or more) of the above?	Yes No

Judith Harper, MD