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Keller 1 PSY 545: 3-2 Journal Antisocial Personality Disorder and Psychopathy Dr. Ford Southern New Hampshire University Kaleigh Keller
Keller 2 According to Introduction to Forensic Psychology , Antisocial Personality Disorder is “a psychiatric diagnostic label reserved primarily for adults at least 18 years of age who displayed conduct disorder as children or adolescents and who continue serious offending well into adulthood. The DSM-5 recognizes four categories of ASP which may occur alone or in combination: (1) aggression to people and animals, (2) destruction of property, (3) deceitfulness, and (4) serious violations of rules” (Bartol & Bartol, 2021). The term Psychopath as it directly relates to psychopathy is currently used to describe a person who demonstrates a “discernible cluster of psychological, interpersonal, and neuropsychological features that distinguish them from the general population” (DeAngelis, 2022). Cleckley (1941) identified what he thought were 10 cardinal behavioral features characteristic of the true psychopath: “(1) selfishness (also called egocentricity), (2) an inability to love or give genuine affection to others, (3) frequent deceitfulness or lying, (4) a lack of guilt or remorsefulness (no matter how cruel the behavior), (5) callousness or a lack of empathy, (6) low anxiety proneness, (7) poor judgment and failure to learn from experience, (8) superficial charm, (9) failure to follow any life plan, and (10) cycles of unreliability” (Bartol & Bartol, 2021). Although antisocial personality disorder and psychopathy are sometimes mixed up and confused with one another due to some similarities, they are different conditions and should be viewed separately. As stated in Introduction to Forensic Psychology, “antisocial personality disorder refers to broad behavioral patterns based on clinical observations, whereas psychopathy refers not only to specific behavioral patterns but also to measurable cognitive, emotional, and neuropsychological differences. Overall, psychopathy and ASP do not reflect the same underlying psychopathology” (Riser & Kosson, 2013).
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