This Continuing Education (CE) seminar will explore treatment considerations with the “perceptive” personality style, as well as the clinical diagnosis of schizoid personality disorder. Perceptive personalities retreat into internal lives to the point that they sometimes become unresponsive to their outer ones. People with “perceptive” personalities may come across as dreamers, loners, or idealists and sometimes younger ones raise concerns among loved ones due to “failure to launch”. Although people with these characteristics may resist the idea of therapy, they can bloom when working with a skilled therapist who understands where they are coming from. The instructor, psychologist Dr Matthew Bennett, will provide an overview of schizoid dynamics, defensive style, and how the personality is represented in diagnostic nomenclature. The seminar will also include discussions of this personality style in cultural context, differential diagnosis with other clinical presentations, and best treatment approaches.