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Harry Guntrip describes the " secret sexual affair " entered into by some married schizoid individuals as an attempt to reduce the quantity of emotional intimacy focused within a single relationship, a sentiment echoed by Karen Horney's resigned personality who may exclude sex as being " too intimate for a permanent relationship, and instead satisfy his sexual needs with a stranger.
Conversely he may more or less restrict a relationship to merely sexual contacts and not share other experiences with the partner.
" More recently, Jeffrey Seinfeld, professor of social work at New York University, has published a volume on SPD in which he details examples of " schizoid hunger " which may manifest as sexual promiscuity.
Seinfeld provides an example of a schizoid woman who would covertly attend various bars to meet men for the purposes of gaining impersonal sexual gratification, an act, says Seinfeld, which alleviated her feelings of hunger and emptiness.

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