SCHIZOPHRENIA AND PERSONALITY - EXPLORING THE BOUNDARIES AND CONNECTIONS BETWEEN VULNERABILITY AND OUTCOME

This article discusses the issues and evidence concerning the relation ship between schizophrenia and personality. We examine personality dim ensions in individuals with schizophrenia, both before and after the o nset of their psychoses, and in their relatives. Schizophrenia is asso ciated with high levels of peculiarity and neuroticism and with low le vels of extraversion. The relationships between schizophrenia and both psychopathy and creativity remain unclear. Personality dimensions var y in the manner in which they are associated with a variety of correla tes of psychopathology, such as prognosis. We recommend that psychopat hologists interested in schizophrenia devote more attention to the stu dy of personality.