ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER

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Antisocial personality disorder or ASP is a personality disorder that involves disregard for the rights of others, as well as impulsive, irresponsible and aggressive behaviour.

Antisocial personality disorder is intimately connected to many of society's ills, including crime, domestic violence, drug and alcohol abuse, and even rape and murder. For men with severe antisocial personality disorder, life becomes an opportunity to break all social and moral rules without remorse.

Antisocial personality disorder is a misunderstood disorder that affects up to seven million Americans.

The predictive power of the childhood precursors of antisocial personality disorder provides ample justification for early intervention.

Conduct problems are predictive of antisocial personality disorder independently of the associated adverse family and social factors.

Antisocial personality disorder is usually preceded by serious and persistent conduct problems starting in early childhood, and so there is little difficulty in identifying an at-risk group.

Prototypical Analysis of Antisocial Personality Disorder 
A Study of Inmate Samples 

RICHARD ROGERS, KENNETH W. SEWELL, KEITH R. CRUISE, University of North Texas, RANDALL T. SALEKIN, Florida International University 
The diagnosis of Antisocial Personality Disorder (APD) remains controversial with its inclusion criteria substantially modified with each new version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Given the continued nonconsensus about this disorder, prototypical analysis has been proposed as a method of establishing the core and most representative Antisocial personality disorder characteristics. Building on earlier prototypical research, the current study examined Antisocial personality disorder prototype with 448 inmates from three correctional institutions. Inmates differed from forensic experts on prototypical ratings in their emphasis on behavioral manifestations, especially aggressive and antisocial behavior. On a principal components analysis with a varimax rotation, three dimensions were observed: impaired/dishonest relationships and impulsivity, aggressive behavior, and non-violent delinquency. A comparison of factor scores based on earlier research revealed that the salience of "manipulation and lack of guilt" for forensic experts was not shared by inmates. The implications of prototypical analysis for the conceptualization of Antisocial personality disorder are discussed. - cjb.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/27/2/234

Conduct Disorder and Antisocial Personality Disorder in Persons With Severe Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorders 
Kim T. Mueser, Anne G. Crocker, Linda B. Frisman, Robert E. Drake, Nancy H. Covell and Susan M. Essock
Conduct disorder (CD) and antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) are established risk factors for substance use disorders in both the general population and among persons with schizophrenia and other severe mental illnesses. Among clients with substance use disorders in the general population, CD and Antisocial personality disorder are associated with more severe problems and criminal justice involvement, but little research has examined their correlates in clients with dual disorders. To address this question, we compared the demographic, substance abuse, clinical, homelessness, sexual risk, and criminal justice characteristics of 178 dual disorder clients living in 2 urban areas between 4 groups: No CD/ASPD, CD Only, Adult Antisocial personality disorder Only, and Full Antisocial personality disorder. Clients in the Adult Antisocial personality disorder Only group tended to have the most severe drug abuse severity, the most extensive homelessness, and the most lifetime sexual partners, followed by the Full ASPD group, compared with the other 2 groups. However, clients with Full Antisocial personality disorder had the most criminal justice involvement, especially with respect to violent charges and convictions. The results suggest that a late-onset ASPD subtype may develop in clients with severe mental illness secondary to substance abuse, but that much criminal behavior in clients with dual disorders may be due to the early onset of the full ASPD syndrome in this population and not the effects of substance use disorders.

Components of antisocial personality disorder among women convicted for drunken driving
B. W. Lex, M. E. Goldberg, J. H. Mendelson, N. S. Lawler and T. Bower 
Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Center, Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts 02178. 
For women, the temporal relationship between Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD) and alcoholism is unclear. Driving while intoxicated is both a symptom of Antisocial personality disorder and the alcohol-related problem most typically reported by women. Accordingly, a period prevalence sample of 33 women incarcerated for drunken driving offenses was assessed with the SCID to identify other symptoms of Antisocial personality disorder. Excluding behaviors that only occurred while drinking, only 1 of the 33 women met DSM-III-R criteria for ASPD. When behaviors while drinking were included, 18.2% (n = 7) met criteria for Antisocial personality disorder by having both a history of childhood conduct disorder and characteristic Antisocial personality disorder behaviors as adults. However, 57.6% of the sample displayed the pattern of adult behavioral symptoms without a history of childhood conduct disorder (n = 19). Women with a history of conduct disorder and Antisocial personality disorder had a younger mean age of onset of alcohol dependence (16.8 vs 25.6 years) and a higher rate of concurrent borderline personality disorder (85.7 vs 42.1%) than did women who had only adult symptoms of ASPD, but a similar rate of reported parental alcoholism (71.4 vs 72.2%). With one exception, women who were diagnosed with full ASPD with childhood conduct disorder (n = 6) had been truant and had run away from home, but none reported cruelty to animals, vandalism, or arson in childhood. Thus, behaviors diagnostic of ASPD were largely consequent to substance abuse, and childhood behaviors were limited predictors of ASPD. Relationships among gender, prodromal behaviors, and substance abuse appear more complex than anticipated, and they indicate the need to recognize adult onset Antisocial personality disorder associated with substance abuse as a legitimate diagnosis manifested differently by women and men. - annalsnyas.org/cgi/content/abstract/708/1/49

Books On Antisocial Personality Disorder:

Bad Boys, Bad Men: Confronting Antisocial Personality Disorder
by Donald W. Black, C. Lindon Larson (Contributor)
From Library Journal
Evidence from genetics and neuroscience supports a biological cause for antisocial personality disorder (ASP), lending truth to the adage "some people are simply born bad." Antisocial personality disorder is intimately connected to many of society's ills, including crime, domestic violence, drug and alcohol abuse, and even rape and murder. For men with severe Antisocial personality disorder, life becomes an opportunity to break all social and moral rules without remorse. But there are ways of detecting warning signs in troubled children, and there are procedures, various combinations of medication, psychotherapy, and social institutional interventions to prevent and treat Antisocial personality disorder.
Bad Boys, Bad Men not only describes the warning signs that predict which troubled children are more likely to become dangerous adults, but also details progress toward treatment for Antisocial personality disorder. This volume will be an essential resource for psychiatrists, psychologists, criminologists, victims of crime, families of individuals afflicted with Antisocial personality disorder, and anyone else interested in understanding antisocial behavior.

The Antisocial Personalities by David T. Lykken

Personality and Dangerousness: Genealogies of Antisocial Personality Disorder
by David McCallum

Antisocial Behavior: Personality Disorders from Hostility to Homicide
by Benjamin B. Wolman

  1. The Antisocial Personalities

  2. Personality Disorders from Hostility to Homicide

  3. Personality and Dangerousness

  4. Confronting Antisocial Personality Disorder

 

 

 

 

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