Antisocial personality disorder

traits that led him to commit numerous accounts of molestation and rape. The most significant conclusions about criminal mind and behavior drawn from this case example are that criminals go after the vulnerable, have manipulative and controlling personalities, and also deal with mental instability. The first assumption about criminal mind, involving the case of Father John Geoghan is that criminals go after the vulnerable. In the molestation and rape cases involving Geoghan, the majority of the…

inability to understand their own psychological limitations may also stem from misinformation by various psychological organizations which state that only 20-30% of people will experience some form of psychopathology, also known as mental or behavioral disorders, of which Dr. Widiger believes “frankly adds to the stigma because it gives the idea that the vast majority of the population has no psychopathology, and that we’re all extremely healthy…

causes of a personality disorder. One study she talked about was one from the Minnesota Study of Twin Reared Apart, it showed that psychopathy is 60 percent heritable which means psychopathic traits are more in DNA than the product of social upbringings. Brogaard then goes on to…

As mentioned before, we encourage the primal behavior for competition, but what about other behaviors? It has been proven that certain professions have higher rates of sociopaths. Lawyers, CEOs, police officers, salespersons, and media personalities are all in the top 10 list for having the most sociopaths, all of those have one thing in common; interacting with people on a daily basis. These professions are all careers that we look up to and admire and whenever something is shown in a positive…

Frank Miller's Sin City: The Hard Goodbye tells the story of Marv, a psychotic, disfigured, ex-military killer living in a decadent and corrupt city. Marv is framed for the murder of beautiful prostitute Goldie, and feeling a connection with her though they only shared one night together, Marv goes on a search for her killer. Marv is both hunter and hunted as he traces the murder up through Sin City to a corrupt cardinal and a cannibalistic serial killer preying on the city's prostitutes. Marv…

things that are non-existent. These individuals are often classified as crazy, although they don’t understand what is happening to themselves or how to live like a “normal” human being. With the proper treatment, they are alive and well but have no personality. They can’t do things by themselves, they are bland and blunt. Their quality to be unique diminishes, and they are considered burdens on their family and the people around them. Even the most helpful forms of treatment do not make the…

Malingering is related in some ways to somatoform disorders and factitious disorders. However, there are also distinct differences. A patient with a factitious disorder like Munchausen’s, does not pretend to be sick in order to get drugs, money or disability. They lie, exaggerate and actually make themselves genuinely ill in order to be a patient. According to (Conroy, 2006) a person who is malingering is behaving intentionally, which means it is done with conscious awareness. Therefore,…

What a game changer this speech was! This speech at first was not very interesting and I do not really know why, but I kept listening, watching, and reading the script…I loved it. The author/speaker’s purpose of this Ted Talk called “Jon Ronson: Strange answers to the psychopath test” by Jon Ronson is to inform viewers of one important mental illness, psychopathy, and his personal experience with psychopathy. What Ronson did was tell his own story experience; that is what made this speech so…

and it was demonstrated that there is a genetic element to diabetes. The researchers found that there is an association between low birth weight rates in infants and T2D. The study explains that fetal growth is affected by insulin and monogenic disorders, which occur as a product of one defective gene on the autosomes. These mutations can cause low birth weight and later onset of diabetes in children. Genetic factors and hostile fetal environments can lead babies to be born small for gestational…

The movie mainly portrayed how different members of the society viewed those with mental illnesses. Those who controlled the ward, Nurse Ratched and her coworkers, believed they had the best interest of the patients in mind; however, their actions spoke otherwise. They have just conformed to society by treating the patients in the ward as damaged and declaring them unable to live amongst “normal” people. The patients in the ward may have had a chance if not for Nurse Ratched, who lowered their…