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  • n  characterized by symptoms similar to but less severe than schizophrenia
  • a  of or relating to or characteristic of schizophrenia
  • s  marked by withdrawal and inability to form close relationships

  • The analyst analyzed, the schizoid psyche caught flagrante delictoit is a notion worthy of Pirandello or Antonioni.
  • The schizoid regime in Iran technically led by President Mohammed Khatami, whose attempts at reform have been stymied by supreme religious leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei .
  • It can be as manic as the Joker, straining to hear the applause of outrage; it can be as implosive as Batman-Bruce, who seems crushed by the burden of his schizoid eminence.
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  • Saul Alinsky in American Thinker
    Alinsky described his community organizer as someone who must become a "well-integrated political schizoid." "The organizer must become schizoid, politically, in order to slip into becoming a true believer. Before men can act an issue must be...

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