Reddit reviews Disorders of the Self: New Therapeutic Horizons: The Masterson Approach

Wow.

I cried for 2 hours when it hit me that I’m not literally the only schizoid mind.

As for books, the most extensive, a very well written one, is:

https://www.amazon.com/Disorders-Self-Therapeutic-Horizons-Masterson-ebook/dp/B00DL1NFTS

As a shorter one, I would definitely read “Schizoid factors in the personality” by Fairbairn. That one was crazy, the fact that the author was schizoid himself shows in every paragraph.

That feeling of being able to relate to someone, I literally only had with fictional characters beforehand. (And only two, Dexter Morgan from the tv show Dexter and Lelouch Lamperouge from the anime Code Geass actually represents a schizoid in really interesting depths to justify me saying I identified to a degree that spoke to the “am I the only one like me” loneliness)

And thanks a lot for telling me this, because I poured a lot of my soul into studying cognition and how the mind works, and moments like these make me feel my life’s worth hasn’t been wasted. In that spirit, I offer to go through your letters to your therapist if you think a second schizoid opinion might be of value.

Here's a good description of what I mean from Masterson's Disorders of the Self:

https://i.imgur.com/oQpuaiu.jpg

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It's a really effective strategy, until it isn't. Then you're kinda fucked. At least that was my experience...