Factors Associated with Antisocial Personality

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The American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual defines antisocial personality as a persuasive pattern of disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others that begins in childhood or early adolescence and continues to adulthood. Antisocial patterns are also known as psychopathy, sociopathy, or dissocial personality disorder. Those with ASPD are sociable but in an abnormal way. They do not conform to normal social standards or behavior. Individuals lack empathy for others and have no shame when causing damage towards another person. This disorder is more common in men than in women. It is about seventy percent more dominant in males ("Antisocial personality disorder," 2004). The prevalence is 3 percent in males and one percent in females (Fisher, & O'Donohue, 2006). There are many factors that are associated with ASPD. They could be family patterns, neglect, substance abuse, or environmental situations. Individuals lack moral sense and only think about benefiting and pleasuring themselves (Antisocial personality disorder, 2000).
The lives of those with ASPD are filled with feelings of anger, shame, envy, boredom, and pleasure through power. They lack the behavior and moral mentality of normal individuals. Meloy (2007) says it is a “pre-socialized” emotional world. They live in their own world cutting out reality. They do as they please. When they get the things that want, they feel pleasure and they seek to continue to satisfy themselves. On the other hand when it is difficult to get the things they want they easily get frustrated and blame others for their vile behavior. ASPD individuals do not have relationships with other people but themselves. They are not able to experience emotions such as grat...

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...py. The goal of this therapy is for the individual to understand the problem created by them and how others view him/her differently. They need to learn to trust others and not allow anger get the better of them. Those with severe ASPD cannot cope with therapy so the best way to keep them from doing irrational thing is to send them to prison (Black, 2006).
It is important that these individuals get help because they are vulnerable to anxiety, depression, and other disorders (Vena, 2011). The will also have the risk of facing numerous complications as they are older such as physical violence, child abuse, time in jail or prison, substance abuse, and premature death by homicide or suicide behavior, from violence (Diseases and conditions:, 2013). In the twenties the symptoms are at a high level and most patients lose control getting into bad situations (Kivi, 2012).

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