Talk:Schizothymia

This concept
As far as I can tell, the concept of schizothymia has been largely superseded by that of schizotypy, which takes multiple dimensions that can lead to schizophrenia into account. As a clinical term, schizothymia sounds equivalent to the DSM-IV-TR's and the ICD-10's schizoid personality disorder. I see that, in the Articles for Deletion debate, a search results from PubMed were given, but I am willing to bet that most of the recent research merely cites the concept of schizothymia as a historical antecedent to the present state of affairs in schizophrenia research (unfortunately, ready access to the full article is not available from PubMed in most cases).

Direction for article
Unless references show a meaningful distinction, we are be best off having this term redirect to Schizoid personality disorder or possibly Schizotypy as these articles provide more up-to-date coverage of the same idea.

No Neologism
Schizothymia is referenced in a psychiatric handbook I have from the 1950's. I don't know exactly when the word was "born", but it's not some empty neologism of wannabe-psychologists...

Terminology always changes, but subtleties of difference ("differentia") between different disorders are real. To vastly oversimplify:

Schizoid disorder is like "schizophrenia minor", and schizothymia, from my understanding, is like "schizoid disorder minor"--the very bottom limit of schizotypy, the most "normal" and the least "bad"... So it's worth keeping and not deleting, in my opinion...

Schizothymia is similar to cyclothymia analogously. The older term is cycloid and the individuals designated "cyclothymes"... The conceptual-diagnostic word "schizothymia" is rare but real. Looking for references--difficult task...

Minor, old reference to "schizothymia" as real concept:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-6494.1950.tb01092.x/abstract

Following article discusses schizothymia and schizothymic concept--implicitly basically a diagnostic term for the "gentlest" "schizotypy"...almost not even "abnormal":

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3061822