Schizothymia

{{Short description|Temperament related to schizophrenia}}

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Schizothymia is a temperament related to schizophrenia in a way analogous to cyclothymia's relationship with bipolar disorder.{{cite book |last1=Green |first1=Bradley |chapter=Schizothymia |title=Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences |date=19 July 2017 |pages=1–3 |doi=10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_945-1 |isbn=978-3-319-28099-8 |chapter-url=http://springer.iq-technikum.de/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_945-1 |access-date=23 December 2020}} Schizothymia was proposed by German psychiatrist Ernst Kretschmer in the early 20th-century when examining body types of schizophrenic patients. Schizothymia is defined by reduced affect display, a high degree of introversion, limited social cognition, and withdrawing from social relations generally. Nevertheless, individuals with such personality traits may achieve relatively affable social relations and a measure of affectivity situationally. As a kind of temperament, schizothymic personality traits are thought to be innate rather than the result of socialization or a lack thereof (Nature versus Nurture).