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Antisocial Personality Disorder

Antisocial personality disorder is characterized by a disregard for others and a pattern of violating their rights that begins in childhood or adolescence. Individuals with this disorder frequently lack empathy and tend to be disrespectful of others' feelings and rights. Treatment focuses on changing destructive behavior patterns, improving impulse control, and decreasing anger and irritability through psychotherapy and sometimes medication. Case studies of individuals diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder often involve childhood abuse, head injuries, financial difficulties, and a history of criminal behavior from a young age.

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Antisocial Personality Disorder

Antisocial personality disorder is characterized by a disregard for others and a pattern of violating their rights that begins in childhood or adolescence. Individuals with this disorder frequently lack empathy and tend to be disrespectful of others' feelings and rights. Treatment focuses on changing destructive behavior patterns, improving impulse control, and decreasing anger and irritability through psychotherapy and sometimes medication. Case studies of individuals diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder often involve childhood abuse, head injuries, financial difficulties, and a history of criminal behavior from a young age.

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Sub-Title

Antisocial Personality
Disorder
Hairul Fazzlinyana Mohd Harris
GS55332
Definition

• Personality is a set of • Enduring pattern of behavior


physiology traits and and experience that is different
mechanism in a person which from the expectation of one’s
is consistent and stable. These culture (DSM-5).
traits influence interaction
between the physical and • Excessively inflexible behavior
social environment (Larsen & patterns or ways of relating to
Buss, 2005). others that ultimately become
self defeating (Nevid, Rathus &
Greene, 2008).

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Personality Disorder Cluster

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Antisocial Personality Disorder
• Antisocial personality disorder is a general pattern of neglect for,
and violation of, the rights of others that begins in childhood or early
adolescence and continues into adulthood (DSM-5).

• Individuals with antisocial personality disorder frequently lack


empathy and tend to be heartless, sarcastic, and disrespectful of the
feelings, rights, and sufferings of others (DSM-5).

• More common among men than women (Nevid, Rathus & Greene,
2008).
Also called with the name “Psychopath” or “Sociopath” which refers to people who is
unmoral, impulsive and lacking for remorse and shame (Nevid, Rathus & Greene, 2008).

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Prognostic Factors
Genetic and physiological.
•Common among the first-degree biological relatives of those with the disorder than in the general
population.
•Higher risk if it is from the female relatives rather than males.

•Males more often have antisocial personality disorder and substance use disorders, whereas females more
often have somatic symptom disorder.

Environmental
•Adoption studies indicate that both genetic and environmental factors contribute to the risk of developing
antisocial personality disorder.
•Adopted-away children resemble their biological parents more than their adoptive parents, but the adoptive
family environment influences the risk of developing a personality disorder and related psychopathology.

(SDM-5)

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Typical Thoughts or Beliefs Associated with the Antisocial
Personality Disorder (Larsen & Buss, 2005).

“I’ll do “Life has been


“Remember,
whatever it hard on me,
look out for
takes to get my and I deserve
yourself”
way” some breaks”.

I don’t need to
“It’s a jungle out
“I don’t care keep my
there; only the
what others promises;
strong will
think of me” people deserve
survive”
to be taken”.

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Research
• Eye blink startle method shows that the
more psychopathic offenders displayed
less of eye-blink effect when startled
shows that they had less anxiety to an
unpleasant picture compare to non
psychopaths.

• Study on 400 victims of childhood abuse


shows that they have higher rates of
developing Antisocial Personality
Disorder.

(Larsen & Buss, 2005)

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LONG-TERM GOALS
1.
Demonstrate increased sensitivity to the needs of others rather than displaying only selfish concerns.

2.
Improve impulse control and reduce reckless, shortsighted behavior.
Treatment
3.
Decrease excessive anger and irritability while learning to handle everyday anger appropriately.

4.
Learn to view affection and cooperation positively.
5.
Exhibit interpersonally responsible conduct.

6. Accept that ordinary rules of law and conduct apply to everyone.

(Jongsma Jr, Smith & Bockian, 2016)


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Treatment
• Unfortunately, research does not indicate that any of the current treatments is
particularly helpful for treating the personality disorder itself.

• Treatment usually depends on the person:


 Psychotherapy may help to change destructive patterns of behavior, learn
skills, get social support and help to be more in touch with feelings (self and
others)
 Cognitive therapy attempts to change ways of thinking.
 Behavior therapy to encourage good behavior.

• There is no specific medication that can reduce symptoms of Antisocial


Personality Disorder but there are some cases that it can be used.

(Harvard Health Publishing, 2020)


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Case Study
• Richard Eugene Hickock (June 6, 1931 – April 14, 1965) was
one of two ex-convicts convicted of murdering four members of
the Clutter family.
• Head injuries from a serious automobile accident in 1950 left
Hickock disfigured, rendering his face slightly lopsided and his
eyes asymmetrical.
• According to his brother Walter, the accident "almost killed
him," and it also changed him.
• After being released from the hospital, Hickok was left with
hospital bills and mounting debts, leading him to start bad
financial habits like writing bad checks and gambling. He
drifted through several manual labor jobs, working as a railroad
worker, mechanic, and ambulance driver while simultaneously
continuing to write bad checks and commit petty theft. At the
age of 26, Hickock received his first prison sentence.
• Hickock was released from prison in August 1959, after
serving seventeen months. Upon release from prison, he got a
job at a body shop in Olathe, Kansas and tried to live an
upright life; however, soon afterwards, he contacted Smith and
plan to commit a robbery.

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Case Study

• Perry Edward Smith (October 27, 1928 – April 14, 1965) was
one of two career criminals convicted of murdering the four
members of the Clutter family.
• Smith father was abusing and his siblings were raised initially
with their alcoholic mother. After his mother dies, he and his
siblings were placed in a Catholic orphanage, where nuns
allegedly abused him because of chronic bed wetting, a result
of malnutrition.
• He was also placed in a Salvation Army orphanage, where
one of the caretakers allegedly tried to drown him. In his
adolescence, Smith reunited with his father, Tex, and together.
• Smith also spent time in different juvenile detention homes
after joining a street gang and becoming involved in petty
crime.
• His father and two of siblings committed suicide and the
remaining sister eliminated any contact with him.
• Smith, however, first confessed that Hickock killed the
women, but refused to sign his confession, and later claimed
to have shot them himself concluding the trial that he shoot all
four family members.

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References
• American Psychiatric Association.(2013).Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, 5th ed (DSM-5).
Arlington, VA: American Psychiatric Association.

• Harvard Health Publishing. (2020). Antisocial personality disorder. Retrieved from


https://www.health.harvard.edu/a_to_z/antisocial-personality-disorder-a-to-z

• Jongsma, Jr,. A.E, Smith, J.C, & Bockian, N.R. (2016). The personality disorders treatment planner second
edition. Hoboken. NJ : Wiley

• Larsen, R.J, & Buss, D.M. (2005). Personality psychology: domains of knowledge about human nature. New York,
NY: Mcgraw-Hill Education.

• Nevid, J. S., Rathus, S. A., & Greene, B. A. (2008). Abnormal psychology in a changing world. Upper Saddle
River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall.

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www.upm.edu.my

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