Antisocial personality disorder

In Parry’s case, he is diagnosed with a moderate case of Schizotypal Personality Disorder (SPD). His symptoms are antisocial behaviors, transcendent beliefs, delusions, erratic subculture norms, paranoid ideation, and irregular thinking/speech. To support Perry’s Diagnoses, in criteria a, it specifies that an individual with SPD experiences delusions (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). With this being said, he reported how he communicates to God is by little flying people who can only be…

There are many disorders that have origins from mythology. Narcissism is a very serious psychological disorder, whose origin can be traced back to roman and Greek mythology. Greek mythology, are the beliefs of the ancient Greeks dating back to about 2000 BC. Roman mythology, are the beliefs of the ancient Romans dating back to a time between 20 BC and 20 AD. Both myths tell a tale of a handsome young man who only wants to spend time with himself, which is what ultimately kills him.…

Autism and psychopathy have historically had several similar constituents that make up the diagnosis or label respectively. Comparably, autistic and psychopathic people both have a lack of social understanding albeit for different reasons. In autism, social cues are purely misunderstood or not comprehended whereas in psychopaths, they simply choose to ignore social cues and normalities (Brook et al., 2013; Howland, Kosson, Patterson, & Newman, 1993; Viding et al., 2014). Accordingly, psychopaths…

Studies of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) Borderline Personality Disorder, often acronymed as “BPD”, is a personality disorder that ordinarily affects your moods, relationships, self-image, and behavior. It is not very well known, however it is a very common disorder. When scientists first started researching this disorder, the name was derived from the early thought that BPD was the “borderline” between psychosis and neurosis. The name Borderline Personality Disorder was meant to act as…

the evidence of improvement in symptoms, social functioning, or core psychopathology after psychodynamic therapy or cognitive therapy? Is there evidence of improvement in specific types of personality disorders after psychodynamic therapy or cognitive behavior therapy?, Do individuals with personality disorders recover after psychodynamic therapy or cognitive behavior therapy? Are there differences between self-report and observational measures? Is there a correlation between outcome and…

Psychopaths and sociopaths In hollywood there's been multiple movies where there is a mindless killer on the loose, psychopath and sociopath are what they call pop psychology terms for a certain antisocial personality disorder. These terms are not well defined this way compared to the literary use of them. Differences between the two Psychopaths and sociopaths are not the same but they both have have some similar traits such as; brake or ovoid the law, lie and deceive, impulsive, aggressive,…

Multiaxial Inventory-III The Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III (MCMI-III) was designed to be utilized as an assessment tool for clinical syndromes and personality disorders. Over the years, the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI) has had revisions following changes to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). The MCMI-III was in response to the DSM-IV revision. With the DSM now in the 5th edition, it is worth mentioning that the MCMI was released in the…

lots of similarities between a psychopath and a sociopath but lots of people just group them together as the same thing. There are a couple similarities but most importantly, a lot of differences. Psychiatrists group them both as having an antisocial personality. A psychopath though is “born with a genetic predisposition that is known to regulate emotions and impulse control”, when a sociopath tends to be made by outside forces such as childhood trauma and physical and/or emotional abuse…

The review says that overprotective and authoritarian parenting styles have been linked to the development of Dependent Personality Disorders because when a child is reinforced by their parent to be extremely compliant, that child is likely to see themselves as dependent or helpless in future relationships they develop (Disney, 2013). This clinical review talks about how children…

There are some disorders that tend to work within killers ' minds (Brogaard). APD or Antisocial Personality Disorder is a frequent factor in many killers. This disorder is considered a “cluster B personality” and is closely related to psychopathy. Although, psychopathy is not a clinical diagnosis; neurologists believe it is a developmental disorder (Pemment). In the brain of the person who has this disorder, he or she does not have the correct judgement skills…