What Happened To People Who Were Anti-Social Personality Disorders?

In the book Fever 1793, Laurie Halse Anderson gives readers insight into the social class divisions of late 18th century America and their everyday role in society. In the beginning of the novel, Mattie and her mother discuss the death of Polly, the coffeehouse serving girl, when Mother says, “The girl was a servant, not a friend” (Anderson 16). The quote shows that Mother did not consider Polly to be Mattie’s friend, unlike Mattie, because Polly was a servant and of a different social class than the Cooks. This is similar to American society in the late 1700s, as people were expected to not socialize with people of other social classes and to make friends within their own social class. Anderson’s choice of displaying Mother’s disapproval of Mattie and Polly’s friendship showed that Mother conformed with society’s “rules” and expected her daughter to do the same.

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

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.

It is common for a person with antisocial personality disorder to have had a neglectful or abusive childhood home life, possibly caused by alcohol or the absence or abandonment of one or even both parents (National Health Service, 2015). Many people with this personality disorder had a disturbing childhood in which they were abusive to animals or other children and had an abnormal fixation with fire (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2016). It is believed there is a connection between antisocial personality disorder and a lack of empathy during years in the child’s life, meaning the child did not grow out of being unable to understand point of views other than their own and were unable to empathize with their peers’ feelings (Mayo Clinic,

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

In this time period, social class played an essential role in a person’s life and often times determined people’s perception of them. Therefore, the lower

The concept of the psychopathic personality originated in the early nineteenth century with the research of J. C. Prichard, who formulated the notion of “moral insanity” to refer to a number of mental deficiencies that led to violent or undesired behaviors.

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 serious disorder experienced by many men and women every day. Although those inflicted by the disorder can

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.

Anti-social behavior is a personality disorder characterized by distracting acts, aggression, and intentional hostility toward others. Anti-social behavior typically displays signs of dismissiveness of right and wrong, insistent lying or deception to manipulate peers, and violating the rights of others by the use of fear, dishonesty, and exaggeration. Boys tend to display more physical and verbal behavior, while antisocial behavior in girls is more indirect and social, displaying harmful manipulation of others. Anti-social behavior can be seen as young as 2 to 3 years of age and can extend into early adulthood, and later form into anti-social personality disorder (Haller, Harold, Sandi, & Neumann, 2014). There is support that studies of anti-social

What exactly is anti-social personality disorder? Anti-social personality disorder is a personality disorder that is a more severe form of the personality disorder social anxiety and it is generally developed during childhood and early

Individuals with an Antisocial Personality Disorder show a lack of concern toward the expectations and rules of society and usually frequently become involved in at

Social fear dates back to 400 B.C. and was referenced to by Hippocrates as someone who "loves darkness as life" (Cunic). Social phobia and social neurosis were terms they started using in the early 1900s to refer to extremely shy patients. In the 1960s, Isaac Marks proposed that social phobias may be separated from the other simple phobias and in the second edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, social fears were described as specific phobia and the definition was very narrow (Cunic). In the later editions of the DSM, they made many revisions to the criteria for the disorder. They added that it was the fear of performance situations, the symptoms must interfere or show distress, and they changed the same from social

As I dive further into searching for understanding of the diagnosis of Anti-Social Personality Disorder (APD), I’ve learned that there are many twists and turns along the way. Although the previous paper focused mainly on the interview with Dr Weise and the system of incarceration that fed the notion of using a diagnosis to classify and segregate African-Americans, there is so much more to understanding how this came to be. I guess it would be easy for me to blame racism as the most prominent reason for this, but as I think about it more deeply, I believe or I hope that there is more. I now understand how the system itself was spun with racist yarn so the patterns that it created were racist in nature and presentation.