Antisocial personality disorder

level. All senses that a person has communicate with the amygdala, so a lot of emotional processes interact with it, and it also decides what motivates a person to act in certain ways. The amygdala in someone who has been diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder, the amygdala has been found to be smaller and much less active. This also indicates that someone with ASPD may not even be able to recognize fear or pain in other people. This suggests that people with…

Therapies are often developed to treat a specific disorder or specific populations. The needs of the client are taken into account when these treatments are developed. All treatments are based off of theories of pathology from various perspectives such as the behavioral or cognitive perspectives. Cognitive theories argue that it is not just the reward and punishment of conditioning, like in behavioral models, but our cognition shapes our behavior and emotions. In the cognitive model it is…

Holden Caulfield’s environmental factors have caused the unhinging of his mental stability and interactions with other individuals. Holden has been expelled from Pencey Prep, an extremely prestigious educational institution, however, he does not see the importance or concern with his conduct toward schooling. The patient seems to be resentful of practically every adult, he has been associated with, calling them “phonies”. (Page 15, Chapter 2) Phoebe Caulfield, the patient 's younger sister, is…

someone is to give them hope. Unsurprisingly, it is very common for victims to develop psychological disorders as a result of their experiences. Fortunately, the majority of these disorders are very treatable through therapy and medication. S Seedat, an author and member of the psychiatry department at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, states that “The main goals of treatment in Social Anxiety Disorder are to treat core symptoms and comorbidities, reduce functional impairment and…

People always confuse the terms and most of the time they are classified as “crazy” people. Over the years people have known how to classify each mental disorder and be more aware of them. I think people have the wrong idea that all of the psychopaths and sociopaths are serial killers; obviously some of them are like the people I mentioned in this research but most of them are just people living theirs lives…

To be classified as serial killer there has to be three important considerations. “Other suggestions are that there must be a motivation, that this motivation tends to be sexual, that the killer will fantasize about the murder and finally, that the killing is premeditated. To eliminate other types of killings like terrorism or assassinations, the murder itself must be the primary motivator. Once serial murder is adequately defined, a deeper look can be taken into the life of the murderer”…

Borderline Personality Disorder LeeAnn Larsen Community College of Aurora Psychology 102 Introduction Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is defined by a specific pattern of impairments and traits (dsm-5, 2015). In this paper, I provide background information about Bryce Larsen, my person of interest, I discuss the history, diagnostic criteria, and effects of BPD, and I apply this information to Bryce’s lived experiences. This paper is purely for educational purposes and not a true…

Delusional disorder is a rare chronic disease that often occurs in middle to older aged men and women. This disorder is often hard to find due to the lack of people who seek help and the fact that the symptoms include normal functioning. There are several different types of delusional disorder but they are categorized into two main subjects: non bizarre and bizarre. Under non bizarre, delusions include the belief of being controlled by aliens, belief that the world might end as they see part of…

Throughout the movie I only focus on three personality disorders. Which were obsessive compulsive disorder, borderline, and narcissism. OCD which is short for obsessive compulsive disorder is where you need orderliness, cleanliness, and organization. Boardline is instability of mood. Narcissism is the need of excessive admiration. Boardline is similar to bipolar. Bipolar is rapid mood changes, but borderline is more just being crazy and doing things out of the ordinary. The movie, “Mommy…

Since Borderline personality disorder does not have a known cause, and only factors that play a part in its development, prevention for Borderline Personality Disorder can be either board or not possible. However, with there being no known prevention for BDP, we can assume that the many factors considered to be a possible cause of BDP can also be some of the ways to preventing the development of BPD, or reducing the risk for example abuse and neglect. Inside the home is where a lot of the…