A CASE STUDY ON CHARLIE BROWN

AS HAVING A SCHIZOTYPAL
PERSONALITY STYLE

Behavioral Level
(F) Expressively Eccentric (e.g., exhibits socially gauche and peculiar mannerisms; is perceived by others
as aberrant, disposed to behave in an unobtrusively odd, aloof, curious or bizarre manner).
(F) Interpersonally Secretive (e.g., prefers privacy and isolation, with few highly tentative attachments
and personal obligations; has drifted over time into increasingly peripheral vocational roles and
clandestine social activities).
Phenomenological Level
(F) Cognitively Autistic (e.g., capacity to "read" thoughts and feelings of others is markedly dysfunctional,
mixes social communications with personal irrelevancies, circumstantial speech, ideas of reference, and
metaphorical asides; often ruminative, appearing self-absorbed and lost in daydreams with occasional
magical thinking, bodily illusions, obscure suspicion, odd beliefs, and a blurring of reality and fantasy).
(S) Estranged Self-Image (e.g., exhibits recurrent social perplexities and illusions as well as experiences
of depersonalization, derealization and dissociation; sees self as forlorn, with repetitive thoughts of life's
emptiness and meaninglessness).
(S) Chaotic Contents (e.g., internalized representations consist of a piecemeal jumble of early
relationships and affects, random drives and impulses, and uncoordinated channels of regulation that
are only fitfully competent for binding tensions, accommodating needs and mediating conflicts).
Intrapsychic Level
(F) Undoing Dynamics (e.g., bizarre mannerisms and idiosyncratic thoughts appear to reflect a retraction
or reversal of previous acts or ideas that have stirred feelings of anxiety, conflict or guilt; ritualistic or
magical behaviors serve to repent for or nullify assumed misdeeds or "evil" thoughts).
(S) Fragmented Architecture (e.g., possesses permeable ego-boundaries; coping and defensive
operations are haphazardly ordered in a loose assemblage of morphologic structures, leading to
desultory actions in which primitive thoughts and affects are discharged directly, with few reality-based
sublimations, and significant further disintegrations into a psychotic structural level, likely under even
modest stress).
Biophysical Level
(S) Distraught or Insentient Mood (e.g., excessively apprehensive and ill-at-ease, particularly in social
encounters; agitated and anxiously watchful, evincing distrust of others and suspicion of their motives
that persists despite growing familiarity); or (e.g., manifests drab, apathetic, sluggish, joyless, and
spiritless appearance; reveals marked deficiencies in face-to-face rapport and emotional expression).

Charlie Brown’s Profile

Distraught or insentient Mood/ Temperament

Estranged Self-Image
Undoing Regulatory Mechanism
Circumstantial Cognitive Style
Peculiar Expressive Emotion
Fragmented Intrapsychic Architecture
Secretive Interpersonal Conduct
Chaotic Intrapsychic Content
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