The author outlines a number of rules or alternatives that schizoid types employ in their pattern of living. His style of writing verges on the poetic at

times, but he alludes to clinical observations often enough to make the article quite useful. The subject material of anxiety-ridden alienation, however, is so broad and so frequently employed in mass media that the carefully formulated eight-point definition of schizoid seems like a description of everyday occurrence in our frenetic, industrialized society. This definition revolves around the concept of a pattern of 'approach-avoidance conflict'. The author concentrates on the intrapersonal and the interpersonal and avoids sociological explanations. Notably lacking in his clinical emphasis is any mention of actual physical inferiority that goes along with the feeling of failure leading to paranoid ideation. He does, however, include Alfred Adler in his interesting list of references.