In this 1hr 23 min lecture, eminent Clinical Psychologist Dr Nancy McWilliams explores the personality organization, affective experience, defenses, conflicts, and organizing cognitions of individuals with schizoid dynamics, with emphasis on the continuum of severity in individuals of this personality type: from high-functioning and creative to psychotically troubled and despairing. An inferential, contextual, and dimensional understanding of schizoid psychology is elaborated, with discussion of the clinical implications of this way of understanding schizoid subjectivity.