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For some reason, it is common practice when tracing the history of modern day personality disorder categories to go back to antiquity (specifically, the Hippocratic-Galen theory of four humors w/each humor bearing some concept overlap w/modern psychology & PD classification). 1/
So who am I to buck such a trend? I went for it & traced the history of schizoid PD back to the phlegmatic humoural type & perhaps also an amalgamation of traits depicted by Theophrastus’ characters. 2/
Every diagnostic construct in modern day psychiatry can be traced back to these traditions: Ancient Greek medicine & what some MFer they call Roback said is “literary characterology” aka literature. At different points in time, one or the other of these approaches has 3/
