schizotypal
adjective
schizo·ty·pal ˌskit-sə-ˈtī-pəl 
psychology : relating to, characteristic of, or affected with schizotypal personality disorder
schizotypal behavior
Schizotypal subjects have enhanced right-hemisphere function and tend to score above average on measures of creativity and association thinking.
Jonah Lehrer
Jonah Lehrer
Word History
Etymology
schizotype "person with a genetic predisposition toward schizophrenia" (from schizo- + type entry 1) + -al entry 1
Note: The term schizotype was introduced by the Hungarian-born psychoanalyst Sándor Radó (1890-1972) in "Dynamics and classification of disordered behavior," American Journal of Psychiatry, vol. 110 (1953), p. 409: "In this sense the patient suffering from an open schizophrenic psychosis is a schizophrenic phenotype, engendered by a schizophrenic genotype in its interaction with the environment … For psychodynamic purposes I shall abbreviate the term schizophrenic phenotype to schizotype."
First Known Use
1953, in the meaning defined above
Phrases Containing schizotypal
Medical Definition
schizotypal
adjective
schizo·ty·pal ˌskit-sə-ˈtī-pəl
: relating to, characteristic of, or affected with schizotypal personality disorder
schizotypal behavior
Schizotypal subjects have enhanced right-hemisphere function and tend to score above average on measures of creativity and association thinking. Jonah Lehrer
Jonah Lehrer