Author of quotes: Harry Guntrip

Let's imagine a number of general expressions that characterize the relationship of an introvert with other people in order to understand how common the "schizoid type" of personality is. When communicating with people every day, you constantly hear: "he has gone into his shell", "he only listens out of the corner of his ear what you say", "he is always anxious" or "absent-minded", "he lives in a world of ideas", "he does not live in this world "," he is an impractical type "," it is difficult to understand who he is "," he cannot admire anything "," he is insensitive "," he is very successful, but ruthless. " You can easily multiply this list. All these statements can refer to people who are stable and quite adequate, but who clearly lack the ability for simple, spontaneous, warm and friendly responsiveness. They are often more emotionally responsive to animals than to the people with whom they live or work. They are reserved, “cold” people: and not in the sense of the opposite of “hot”, emotional people, but rather in the fact that their relationships with people are in fact emotionally empty.