Many people believe that antisocial personality disorder is a façade for criminals to receive lesser sentences by being diagnosed with a medical disorder. However, antisocial personality disorder is not just having and being a sociopathic person; it is a constant struggle. Antisocial personality disorder is a rare personality disorder with mental conditions that has short and long-term effects on a patient’s life. This literature review aims to characterize antisocial personality disorder by addressing the following questions: 1. What is antisocial personality disorder? 2. What are the symptoms of antisocial personality disorder? 3. What are the causes of antisocial personality disorder? 4. Are there treatments for antisocial personality …show more content…
Moreover, “when an antisocial personality combines keen intelligence with no conscience, the result may be a charming and clever con artist, a ruthless corporate executive- or worse” (Myers, 538). However, this does not mean that people with antisocial personality disorder walk amongst us to physically or mentally injure others; they are solely unable to fulfill responsibilities dealing with social interactions and empathizing with societal views. Luckily, similar to other disorders, there is a framework for antisocial personality disorder. Over the years, clinicians have assembled ways to diagnosis this chronic mental condition. Since antisocial personality disorder alters a person view of right and wrong, they must be careful and consider how long and how severe a person’s symptoms are. Antisocial personality disorder can begin “in early childhood and continue throughout adulthood”, so clinicians must be careful of complications such as drug abuse, violence, and even suicidal thoughts that could aggravate the disorder (Black, 2015). Additionally since people with the disorder do not care if the break a law, they could be a danger to themselves and people around them. What are the symptoms of Antisocial Personality Disorder? Antisocial personality disorder is a controversial mental disease because of its’ diverse set of symptoms. As other mental disorders, antisocial personality disorder can be “disruptive, inflexible, and have behavior
Antisocial personality disorder is a disregard for others rights and violating theses rights. This disorder starts as a child to people who carry this disorder portray the characteristics of irritability, aggressiveness, lack of remorse, and irresponsibility. A psychopath falls under the umbrella of antisocial personality disorders. A psychopath is a person with a personality disorders which is inherited from their parents at birth. Flashes of these inherited factors show and happen in the child upbringing this includes torture animals at a young age, playing weird dark games as a kid, or ripping heads of toys. A perfect example of a Psychopath is Edmund Kemper. A man who showed his psychopath tendencies at a young age that grew into to him becoming a serial killer.
While there have been no outwardly successful treatments for Antisocial Personality Disorder, many of the disorders’ individuals never seek treatment alone, as they see no reason to conform to the rules of society with which they find no satisfaction. Instead, the individual will be prompted by his family or friends, or will be forced by a court system to seek treatment, and then will usually comply, and will consent to treatment. Much of the recent treatment for Antisocial Personality Disorder has been behavioral, and has not been based around biological or medicinal findings.
Antisocial personality disorder is a personality disorder that is characterized by the disregard for others and their safety, as well as the tendency to violate other’s rights. According to the DSM-5, a person with this disorder must meet at least three of the major traits of antisocial personality disorder. These traits include disrespects towards the law and other morals, manipulation, hastiness, irrational anger, disregard for others, recklessness, and lack of empathy. Other terms for antisocial personality disorder are psychopathy and sociopathy which are listed as synonyms for this disorder. These two are slightly different and could make some traits for antisocial individuals more common in some cases than in others. As stated in “How to Tell a Sociopath from a Psychopath” by Scott Bonn, psychopaths are more
Antisocial personality disorder is a disorder of the brain that cause one to disregard other people’s rights by violating them, they lack empathy and are very malicious towards others, they enjoy the suffering of individuals whether it be an animal or human being and it usually occurs during child/teen hood and worsens as the child ages. With this disorder comes a hatred toward society due to lack of knowledge of the real world “Many of the children grow up shy, lonely, highly sensitive, with feelings of being rejected, unloved and neglected by family and/or society”(Miller, 2014, p.13). Isolation at young ages causes children to not know how to interact with others in the real world they think that it is okay to violate personal space because they were never taught what that was. With the isolation and feelings of oddity in the child, they begin to manifest fantasies within their own mind (Miller, 2014, p.14). Many times the child starts out with violent sexual fantasies that they would like to act out but do not have an execution plan so they experiment on inanimate objects or even themselves or family members who will not tell such as younger siblings. This quickly escalates to the things they do to strangers in society starting with smaller steps such as stalking, peeping tom, or abduction. With such successes, they begin their reign of terror
Individuals with antisocial personality disorder frequently commit illegal acts like destroying property, stealing, and harassing others. They often employ manipulation and deceit to obtain profit or pleasure. The criterion of impulsivity is often seen in a lack of planning. In other words, these individuals live in the present, not thinking about the past or future. This is often seen in numerous and sudden job changes, homes, or significant others. They tend to repeatedly fight with others and commit physical assault. A reckless disregard for one’s safety and that of others is often shown by unsafe driving behavior like drunk driving, drug abuse, or high risk sex. Those diagnosed are irresponsible. For example, it is not uncommon to see erratic work history, large gaps in employment (even when employment was readily available), departing a job with no plan to get another, and repeated unexcused absences
Long-term patterns of manipulating, exploiting, or violating the rights of others are qualities that are often related to criminal behavior. This is a mental condition that is defined as Antisocial Personality Disorder by the U.S. National Library of Medicine. Antisocial Personality Disorder, or otherwise known as ASPD, is a disorder that fits into two essential categories: psychopathy and sociopathy. ASPD can be caused by many deformations within the brain, these deformations can be caused by a number of outside influences including child abuse and parental neglect. With this in mind, psychopathy and sociopathy are two different forms of this very severe mental disorder. Not
Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD) is a serious disorder that can hurt the people you care about if you're plagued with it. However, with a lot of therapy, you can be very high-functioning and avoid the consequences of this disorder. As stated by medicineplus.gov, Antisocial Personality Disorder is “a mental condition in which a person has a long-term pattern of manipulating, exploiting, or violating the rights of others.” Antisocial Personality Disorder is also referred to as sociopathy. People with this condition tend to be completely indifferent toward what effects their actions can have on other people. They often are manipulative and downright cruel to others, however, they show absolutely no remorse. Many people with this disorder
Unbeknownst to many, mental illness is very prevalent in society today. The National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R) performed a study on the prevalence of mental illness among adults. The results were 32.4% of adults admitted to having some kind of mental illness within the last 12 months (Bagalman & Napili, 2014). However two thirds of these people do not seek treatment. Treatment is not sought out because of the stigma mental illness has (Thompson, 2011). People do not want to be labeled as needing medication for their illness. Mental illness can be treated and psychotic breaks prevented if people did not have a
Antisocial Personality Disorder is a serious disorder experienced by many men and women every day. Although those inflicted by the disorder can
Ann Easterbrooks. Xudong Zhao. and Karlen Lyons-Ruth (2012) Childhood Maltreatment and Prospectively Observed Quality of Early Care as Predictors of Antisocial Personality Disorder Features, Catherine Tuvblad, Jurgita Narusyte, Martin Grann, Jerzy Sarnecki, and Paul Lichtenstein (2011) The Genetic and Environmental Etiology of Antisocial Behavior from Childhood to Emerging Adulthood, and Kimberly B. Werner, Lauren R. Few, and Kathleen K. Bucholz (2015) Epidemiology, Comorbidity, and Behavioral Genetics of Antisocial Personality Disorder and Psychopathy, we will better understand the current data available about ASPD. This paper will discuss in further detail the epidemiology and etiology of the often misunderstood ASPD.
This paper explores articles and information that describe, assess and offer theories and treatments regarding antisocial personality disorder.
Antisocial personality disorders are immense, and psychopaths and sociopaths are just two of the various personality disorders. An antisocial personality disorders is defined as, “a type of chronic mental condition in which a person's ways of thinking, perceiving situations and relating to others are dysfunctional — and destructive.” (Mayo Clinic Staff). Sociopaths are a direct correlation to antisocial personality
The issue of antisocial personality disorders has joined the study of criminology and psychology together to provide an accurate depiction of this disorder. Psychologists believe that individuals who suffer from antisocial personality disorders are more susceptible to commit criminal activity than the general population. Those who suffer from antisocial personality disorder or APD tend to lack self control, culpability, and generally show no signs of remorse for their actions no matter how heinous. “Individuals with antisocial personality disorder APD have reduced impulse control, lack of empathy and guilt, and show few signs of remorse (Wahlund, 2006 pg.1082). These individuals do suffer from a personality disorder however; they are still able to comprehend the mindset of others and generally are used to influence others to accomplish their own agenda.
In the article “The antisocial person: an insight into biology, classification and current evidence on treatment” authors Rodrigo, Rajapakse, and Jayananda (2010) explored PubMed looking for published English articles between 1999 to 2009 with the search words, antisocial personality disorder, dissocial personality disorder, and psychopathy. The purpose of the literature search was to look for advances in understanding the neurobiology of violence and empathy, effective treatment modalities, and ethical implications in defining 'at-risk' individuals for preventive interventions. Data sources for this review included clinical journals, cohort studies, interventional studies, case control studies, cross sectional analysis and epidemiological studies. The search revealed a number of interesting findings, such as the different terminology used, treatment related issues, and the importance of early identification and prevention of antisocial behavior.
Mental health conditions and cognitive issues are critical in understanding the behavioral patterns and psychology of individuals in the society. Antisocial personality behavior is one of the most common forms of personality disorders that are characterized by impulsive, irresponsible and criminal behavior. It is a disorder that is present in most criminals in the society, who go on to commit serious crimes and is perfectly captured in psychopaths. Psychopaths have a severe form of antisocial behavior and react towards other negatively due to their individual