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Discuss the concept and implication of Schizotypy as a personality trait. Gruzelier (1996) suggest that "schizotypy consists mainly of impulsive non-conformity, social anxiety, positive features such as unusual perceptions, and negative features such as introversions." (Cited in Miller P, et al. 2002, p.179). In this essay one would like to explore the definition given to 'schizotypy' and to give a brief discussion on this concept and whether schizotypy is a single trait or whether there are more factors to be considered, for it was conceptualized by Eysenck as a single personality trait named psychoticism, however it was Claridge's work that suggested that this personality trait was much more complex, and that such scales, namely Ensenck's psychoticism scale (P), "tap up to four different components that map onto the clinical heterogeneity of schizophrenia (and potentially other forms of psychosis)" (Mason, O. 1995, P.272). And so therefore this leads onto another question of, if...

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