Schizotypal Personality Type
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Idiosyncratic
Definition:
Synonyms:
Analogous:
Character Strengths and Virtues
- Originality, integrity, bravery, confidence.
- Independence, purposefulness.
- Creativity, artistry.
- Openness to experience, curiosity, spirituality.
- Open-mindedness.
- Alertness, sensitivity.
Traits or Behaviors
Likes
non-conformity, dreaming, the spirit, visions, mysticism, eccentricity, freethinking idiosyncratic feelings and belief systems, worldview, and approach to life, odd habits, self-direction, independence, the occult, the extrasensory, the supernatural, abstract and speculative thinking, being inner-directed, observing others, new experiences and feelings, rapture, freedom from rules,
Dislikes
conformity, convention, tradition, close relationships, how other people react to them, that others think them strange, old belief systems, joining, affiliation, adapting, accepting or espousing anyone else's principles and beliefs, standard explanations, ridicule, doubt, uncertainty, disillusionment, the "regular" world, narrow-minded people, normal behavior standards, others' expectations, accepting authority
Noteworthy Examples
Hannah Arendt, Clive Barker, Tim Burton, John Cage, Italo Calvino, Kurt Cobain, Elvis Costello, René Descartes, Umberto Eco, Maurits Cornelis Escher, Albert Einstein, Oriana Fallaci, Glenn Gould, Werner Heisenberg, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Buster Keaton, Stephen King, Stanley Kubrick, R.D. Laing, k. d. lang, Gary Larson, John Lennon, David Lynch, James Madison, Iris Murdoch, Friedrich Nietzsche, Georgia O'Keeffe, Jean-Paul Sartre, Klaus Tennstedt, Billy Bob Thornton.
References
John M. Oldham and Lois B. Morris (1995). The New Personality Self-Portrait: Why You Think, Work, Love and Act the Way You Do. New York: Bantam.
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