Though the album had minimal promotion at its time of release and was not met with large commercial success, it has since been retroactively praised by critics for its musical breadth, vocals, production, and electropop sound.

[1][2] After his group NSYNC went on hiatus following the Celebrity Tour in 2002, Chasez teamed up with producer Dallas Austin to record the song "Blowin' Me Up (With Her Love)" for the soundtrack to the film Drumline.

[2][10][11] In addition, radio stations declined to play the single "All Day Long I Dream About Sex" for fear of FCC fines, preventing the song and music video from gaining exposure.

[12] To promote Schizophrenic, Chasez began a mini club tour in December 2003, earning positive reviews from The New York Times[13] and San Francisco Chronicle.

[14] Marketing for the album fared better in the United Kingdom,[15][16][17][18] where Chasez was an opening act on several dates for Britney Spears' Onyx Hotel tour.

"[19] Devon Powers of PopMatters noted that "Chasez's years of performing multiple nights to crowds ten times as large were put to good use.

"[20] Powers also praised his vocal talents: "His voice is, without question, a miracle: elastic and tough, it can move from curdling to coddling in an instant, pushing the limits of what one would think is humanely possible.

'"[13] Patrick Berkery (The Philadelphia Inquirer) wrote, "Chasez was a bumping and grinding, locking and popping dancing machine as he sang carnally minded jams from his debut solo outing...in a voice that alternated between achy tenor and fluttery falsetto.

Nelson called the album "an immensely listenable collection of well-crafted pop tunes" that shows Chasez wears "his influences on his sleeve,"[33] and Aidin Vaziri of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote Schizophrenic "[proves] that dance music is fun and technological and dirty.

"[34] Peter Robinson of The Guardian wrote although the album wasn’t a commercial success, “Chasez has still come up trumps, creatively and artistically at least, with a dark and unusually adventurous collection of 1980s electro and Prince-type funk”.

[32] Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic praised the producers for taking risks with different genres, concluding "Chasez may not be able to eclipse Timberlake's star, but in his favor, he does have an album that on a strictly musical level tries harder and achieves more than Justified ".

[25] Tom Moon of The Philadelphia Inquirer noted how Chasez "avoided the just-add-water hooks of teen pop in favor of more elaborate chord sequences and compositional schemes.

[41][38][25] Neil Drumming of Entertainment Weekly noticed the '80s influenced production by Riprock and Alex G. but found Chasez's attempt at a new sound to be "a tad misguided.