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- Social Factors in the Personality Disorders
- Social Factors in the Personality Disorders
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Introduction
- Part I General Principles
- Part II Social Mechanisms
- Part III Specific Patterns of Disorder
- Chapter 5 The Borderline Pattern
- Chapter 6 The Problem of Narcissism
- Chapter 7 Antisocial Personality Disorder
- Chapter 8 Other Personality Disorders
- Part IV Models and Clinical Applications
- References
- Index
Chapter 7 - Antisocial Personality Disorder
from Part III - Specific Patterns of Disorder
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 August 2020
- Social Factors in the Personality Disorders
- Social Factors in the Personality Disorders
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Introduction
- Part I General Principles
- Part II Social Mechanisms
- Part III Specific Patterns of Disorder
- Chapter 5 The Borderline Pattern
- Chapter 6 The Problem of Narcissism
- Chapter 7 Antisocial Personality Disorder
- Chapter 8 Other Personality Disorders
- Part IV Models and Clinical Applications
- References
- Index
Summary
Antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) has been an accepted category of mental illness, albeit with different names, for two centuries. Antisocial personality disorder is a highly egosyntonic disorder that fits well within a PD construct. The idea that there is a form of mental disorder characterized by callousness and criminality is fairly universal across cultures. In psychiatry many different terms: “moral insanity”, “psychopathy”, or “sociopathy” have been used to describe this pattern (Berrios, 1993). The term psychopathy is still frequently used to describe a more severe form of the disorder.
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- Social Factors in the Personality DisordersFinding a Niche, pp. 59 - 68Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020