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When I was asked to write about the difference between "introvert" and "Schizoid Personality Disorder (PSD)," I resisted. Too loaded. What led this person to assume they were the same thing?

Why isn't there a DSM term we might mistake for the exaggerated extravert? It seems to have become a contest of which is better -- extravert or introvert -- and there's a bias in the scientific literature that irks me.

This is not what Carl Jung had in mind, the man who introduced the concepts to the field of psychology.

It's not surprising introverts are getting a bad press, since (1) there are more than twice as many extraverts; (2) extraverts are more likely, by definition, to toot their own horns; and (3) extraverts may be in charge of the language.

How so? Think of all the years (as if they're gone) that a person was referred to as "he," when males were in charge of the language.

There's prejudice in both directions. Extraverts may think introverts are "weird loners with no social skills" but introverts may consider extraverts "superficial glad-handers who use people."

I propose this is neither a good way, nor the correct way to look at what are essentially two different but equally legitimate personality styles. I'm particularly concerned about the subtle, and not so subtle, bias against introverts in the professional literature.

Schizoid Personality Disorder, is a disorder, while introversion is a personality type. It could be the "flaming" introvert, but where is the comparable disorder related to extraversion? Not fair, I cry.

I find it difficult to be with the flaming introvert -- I might disturb them, but equally difficult to be with the flaming extravert -- I might be disturbed.

One might argue there are similarities in the extreme -- "flaming" extraverts also lack close relationships, they use people for sex (i.e., tension relief), they must keep busy because they're enjoying it so little, and they're indifferent and cold while doing what they consider to be relating.

Bias In The Literature

In "Cross-Cultural Evidence for the Fundamental Features of Extraversion," Richard E. Lucas, Ph.D., et al, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol. 79, No. 3., researchers concluded that "sensitivity to rewards" was what distinguished extraverts from introverts rather than "higher sociability."

In other words, extraverts find social situations more rewarding than introverts, "not because they are more sociable, but because they are more sensitive to the rewards inherent in most social situations." This is either too obvious, or pointless, and I'm not sure which.

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