Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD)

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.

Most people with Antisocial Personality disorder have been known to partake in deviant activities or behavior as children. These deviant behaviors and activities can be traced back to the conduct disorder. Conduct disorder is similar to

This article tries to sum up the causes of Antisocial Personality Disorder. Though, researchers have not found an exact cause of Antisocial Personality Disorder (Martens, 2000). Antisocial Personality Disorder is known to be directed toward specific behaviors and criminal act instead of looking at personality traits and psychopathological aspects (Martens, 2000). People that develop Antisocial Personality Disorder are more likely to suffer from substance abuse disorder, anxiety, depression, and schizophrenia (Martens, 2000). Researchers have done different studies especially with brain injuries, which could trigger

Antisocial Personality Disorder is a personality disorder recognized within the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. This disorder is

Antisocial Personality Disorder is a very rare disorder. The criteria to be diagnosed with Antisocial Personality Disorder has been changed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders throughout many years. The rareness of this disorder can be considered beneficial in the world because of the way people diagnosed with it become and what they do to others. Many people diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder find their self in prison. A variety of causes pertain to this disorder. Very few treatments of this disorder seem to work of this that has been tested. Researchers are still working on a better way to treat this disorder. The defense mechanisms associated with antisocial personality disorder are quite common and the same during the course of diagnosis.

Antisocial Personality Disorder or as Psychologists refer to as Psychopathic Personality disorder is known to inflict criminal behavior. The subject experiencing this

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

Anti-social personality disorder (ASPD) is described as someone who lacks moral or ethical development is unable to follow correct methods of behavior, finds ways to be deceitful, has no qualms in shamelessly manipulating others and tended to have had behavioral problems as a child. According to the DSM-5 only individuals over 18 can be diagnosed with ASPD and the symptoms must have been shown prior to 15. ASPD can be confused with psychopathy and although they have some overlap they are different. ASPD places heavy emphasis on observable behaviors such as lying, getting into fights, or failing to honor financial obligations (Hooley, p.356). With psychopathy, more emphasis is paid to personality characteristics such as superficial charm, lack of empathy, and manipulativeness. It seems that no matter how you look at it ASPD is affected by genes and the environment. The effects and interactions of ASPD that was once seen as simply unidirectional- family to child is now being understood that the effects can be bi directional going both ways.

Antisocial personality Disorder (ASPD) also known as sociopathy, is described as showing no regard for other people and their rights, acts based off of this disorder are often criminal.

So after reading this articles I was wondering how is it that someone gets to this point in life, what is it that can triger a disorder like this?, and some of the reasons are the envirolmental and social factors, many of this persons have suffer from a traumatic experience, could be abuse or abandonment, other of them could be brain factors such as a bad function in the area of the brain that controls impulses and regulates emotions, and of course like in many psychological diagnoses genetics plays a huge part, if someone close to the person suffer from it.

Approximately 2% to 3.5 % U.S. adults meet the criteria for antisocial personality disorder (APD) (Comer, 2014). A diagnosis can be made at age 18 years. Most persons with this diagnosis have a history of

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

Antisocial Personality Disorder, or APD, is a disorder in the dramatic/erratic cluster and these sorts of people are irresponsible, cold-hearted, and can often be criminals (Friedman & Schustack, 2012). The definition from DSM-5 states that APD is a pervasive pattern of disregard for the rights of others since the age of 15 and has at least three characteristics (Ann M, Johnson, Davidson, & Neale, 2016). Those characteristics are repeated law breaking, deceitfulness, impulsivity, irritability and aggressiveness, reckless regard for their own

Antisocial Personality Disorder is in the category of Cluster B Personality Disorders. It can also be called sociopathy or psychopathy, depending on severity of symptoms. Sociopathy is thought to be when something is severely wrong with the conscience, as opposed to psychopathy, when this no conscience of the person (Stout, Westermeyer, & Thuras, 2015). Some clinicians believe there is no difference in sociopathy, where other clinicians believe psychopathy is a more severe form of the disorder (Blais, Smallwood, Groves, Rivas-Vazquez, & Berger, 2014). Either way, it is a chronic personality disorder in which the person’s way of thinking, perception, and actions are disturbed, destructive, and dysfunctional. The disorder may lessen as the