204 Pages
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Routledge
204 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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Some children seem different, detached, disinterested in the games of other children. They prefer their hobbies to friends of their own age and if forced into community activities, as they often are at school, can become aggressive and difficult. In Loners , Sula Wolff describes a childhood personality syndrome that has frequently been neglected. Often using children's own words, their lives and... Read more
List of illustrations -- Foreword Leon Eisenberg -- Acknowledgements -- Author's note -- Introduction -- 1. Early observations -- 2. In search of a diagnostic label -- 3. A closer look at the childhood picture -- 4. The personality of loners in later life -- 5. The later life adjustment of schizoid boys -- 6. Schizoid girls in childhood and later life -- 7. What is the risk of later psychiatric disorder? -- 8. Is there a link with antisocial conduct? -- 9. Intellectual interests and giftedness -- 10. How can we best understand the condition? -- 11. How can we intervene most helpfully? -- 12. Schizoid personality, pretence and genius: two extraordinary people -- Appendix -- References -- Name index -- Subject index.
Biography
Sula Wolff is Honorary Fellow at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh. She is the author of Children under Stress (1968; 2nd edn 1981) and Childhood and Human Nature: The Development of Personality (1989).
