Antisocial Personality Disorder

Antisocial Personality Disorder

Introduction

It is estimated that the prevalence of antisocial personality disorder in the population is 3% for men and 1% for women. This disorder is characterized by impulsive behavior, irritability and aggressiveness, defiance of authority, repeated lies, indifference to the safety of self and others, irresponsibility, inability to feel empathy for others, lack of guilt and remorse, cruelty towards people and animals, destruction of property theft. The severity of the chronic disorder can lead to deterioration of social relationships, social adjustment difficulties and problems with the law. In addition, people with antisocial personality disorder often have other associated problems such as substance abuse disorders, depression, anxiety disorders and attention deficit disorder and hyperactivity (Swanson, 2002).

Antisocial personality disorder is considered as one of the most difficult to treat because people with this condition rarely seek treatment on their own and there are few controlled studies on the effectiveness of interventions in these patients. In general, cognitive-behavioral interventions are recommended, along with avoidance of excessive use of drugs, due to substance abuse problems that these patients usually present.

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There is a close relationship between narcissistic and antisocial personality disorders. All patients with antisocial personality disorder exhibit features typical for narcissistic personality disorder, plus the specific pathology of internalized moral system (functions of the super-ego), and particularly their corrupt world of internalized object relations. The only major exception to this rule is relatively rare and prognostically unfavorable clinical syndrome typically observed in chronic schizophrenic patients with periodic enhancements (subject to availability of treatment or lack of it), and antisocial behavior in the periods of these "improvements", which disappears only if the patient again became psychotic. There is also a group of patients who are antisocial and narcissistic, who are characterized as the syndrome of malignant narcissism. This syndrome is a combination of 1) narcissistic personality disorder, properties, 2) antisocial behavior, 3) Ego-aggression or sadism synthons directed against others or expressed in a specific type of triumphant self-harm or suicide attempts, and 4) a strong paranoid orientation (Lilienfeld, 1994).

Therefore, is the measurement of antisocial behavior, which relates to a narcissistic personality disorder with antisocial personality disorder and malignant narcissism. Characterological dimension that connects these three disorders, similar to other characterological measure, combine with other personality disorders, such as measurements, binding and schizoid personality disorder shizotipalnoe or hysterical personality disorder and stage (or hysteroid, or infantile), and borderline personality disorder.

DSM

There is a lack of description about antisocial personality disorder in the DSM-III-R. The criteria used in the Manual [DSM-III-R], of course, are broad enough to include virtually all anti-social personality disorder, in which occur predominantly aggressive pattern of relationships, and criminal behavior. Stressing the childhood precursors, DSM-III-R adequately addresses the clinician for children's sources of this pathology character (Edens, 2000). Unfortunately, focusing on the criminal aspect, it includes offenders with very different personal appearance and blurs the difference between the socio-cultural and economic determinants of delinquency on the one hand, and the psychopathology of personality, on the ...