Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD) and Schizophrenia By Stephanie Brent Description: Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD) is a condition where someone shows patterns of feeling with no regard to any sense of rights and wrongs. People with ASPD lack remorse for their cruel actions and behaviour and show no regret for the affect they have on other people. Unlike ASPD, which is a personality disorder, schizophrenia, despite meaning ‘split mind’, is not a personality disorder but a chronic brain disorder. Schizophrenia is a condition where someone experiences active delusions and hallucinations in their daily life. People with schizophrenia have trouble differentiating between real life and their delusions. Symptoms: Childhood behaviours …show more content…
Unlike ASPD, schizophrenia has 3 separate symptoms, positive, negative, and disorganised. Positive symptoms include hallucinations of voices or people, paranoia, distorted perceptions, beliefs, and behaviours. Negative symptoms include impaired emotions, decreased speech, and reduced social interaction and activities. Disorganised symptoms include disorganised thinking, speech, and abnormal behaviour or movements. Someone with schizophrenia can experience cognitive impairment leading to problems concentrating, paying attention, memories, and a declining education. Diagnosis: To get diagnosed with ASPD the person needs to be at least 18 and show concerning patterns for 3+ years. Childhood pre-diagnosis that leads to the development of ASPD is Childhood Conduct Disorder. People with ASPD tend to refuse or ignore help from professionals as they believe they are normal. If someone is concerned that someone, they know, has ASPD they will need to reach out to professionals and seek help for …show more content…
Possible causes that increase the risk of ASPD include an individual’s family history, a difficult childhood, and changes in the brain function. Schizophrenia presents in males from late teenage years to early 20’s while women present symptoms from their 20’s to early 30’s. Initial signs of schizophrenia include troubled relationships, poor schooling performance, and reduced motivation. Unlike ASPD, schizophrenia can develop from life stressors or family history. Scientists believe that stressors are the main cause of schizophrenia. Treatment: ASPD is unpreventable for those who are at risk. The best way to recognise ASPD is for people who are involved in children’s early childhood to know warning signs of ASPD. Common methods of treatment for ASPD are long-term Psychological Therapy, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy or Mentalisation Based Therapy. These therapies all focus on learning about thoughts, feelings, and emotions. There is no medication for ASPD, but some people are prescribed antidepressants, antipsychotics, and mood stabilisers to manage symptoms. Like ASPD, there is no cure for schizophrenia. People with schizophrenia seek treatment with antipsychotic medications to reduce any psychotic
According to the DSM-IV, schizophrenia is classified under the section of “Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders”. Schizophrenia is one of the most serious major chronic brain disorders in the field of mental health; it is a neurological disorder that affects the cognitive functions of the human brain. People living with this incapacitating illness can experience multiple symptoms that will cause extreme strain in their own and their families and friends life. The individual can lose reality, unable to work, have delusions and hallucinations, may have disorganized speech and thought processes, will withdraw from people and activities, they may become suspicious and paranoid, may behave inappropriately in every day social situations. They may neglect personal hygiene and dress improperly, use excessive make-up; every day life is becoming chaotic for everyone involved.
Psychopath and Sociopath are so closely related that many don’t know they are different illness. Both psychopath and sociopath have similar illness but their factors are completely different. Study’s shows this may be a product of nature vs nurture. Secondly, Psychopath behavior is shown to be controlled while sociopath is shown to have uncontrollable behavior. Thirdly, there violence outburst is different, psychopath usually plan out their crimes while sociopaths are erratic and careless with their crimes. Fourthly, Psychopaths don’t feel any type emotion towards others but they can be in relationships when it comes beneficial to them. Sociopaths often don’t have relationships, they don’t become attached to others. Lastly, Psychopath are actually
A good looking man in an expensive suite walks past a woman on the subway whistling a catchy tune. Many thoughts begin to run through her head, “He’s an important business man on his way to his next meeting.” Or “He’s a father on the way home from work.” As he stops she watches him read a news paper thinking how attractive and self composed he is. In the back of her head she’s wishing that he would speak to her. As she sits and hopes it seems that her wish is going to be answered. The young, attractive gentleman gets up and strides over taking the seat next to her. He introduces himself as Mr. Cromer and engages her in a charming conversation, sweeping her off her feet. In her head everything is going great, she has met the perfect man, all the while she hasn’t noticed that he has lead her to the door of a warehouse. By the time she realizes where she is it is too late, he has her now. As she begins to scream he shoves her in the building ending all hope. Mr. Cromer actually suffers from a severe case of antisocial personality disorder and has developed a bad habit of abducting, raping and killing women followed by an ostentatious dinner often buying dinks and food for others in the restaurant or bar to which he leaves without every paying. Those who suffer from personality disorders will not necessarily all become killers or rapists but most do participate in illegal activity of some sort. Antisocial personality disorder, also known as sociopathy or psychopathy, is often described as the person lacking any and all morals; they have no conscience. Often these individuals have difficulty or inability to feel empathy for others and as a result they do as they please, not conforming to social norms like the majority of the population...
Such people are considered to be out of the norm for they are unable to understand and comply with the universal rules and laws that society has laid. These people who usually exhibit peculiar behavior patterns, such as being antisocial, violent, and paranoid can be classified as psychotic individuals. Such individuals can inherit these traits other genetically or simply copy the behaviors they witnessed as children. Despite not having control over their genes, nor past, they are liable for the actions they commit whether voluntary or not.
The two most important fields of science that bind and give structure to the fabric of society is the nature of dissociative disorders such as schizophrenia and the associations to deviant criminal behavior. These fields are very intrinsically tied together to our criminal justice system and our social structure. The application of law within our legal system and the evaluation of a criminal's 'state of mind' are blended to provide safety for society. Determining the form of psychotherapy needed as a form of social rehabilitation is complex. Society needs deterrents for violent forms of crime associated with dissociative disorders but it requires a greater understanding of the functions of the brain. Even though each of these science fields are their own unique and complex structure of data, each of these fields are enhanced from the input of critical data from advancing fields of psychology and the study of the brain.
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and schizophrenia are two disorders that occur during childhood. The two disorders are so similar, that most children are misdiagnosed and mistreated for their illness. ASD and schizophrenia both share social imparities that cause them to seem different to others. (2017) Comparing both ASD and schizophrenia will see the similarities and differences between two childhood disorders and why they would be mistaken for one another. There are many similarities between both ASD and schizophrenia, but there is also a lot of differences as well.
According to the Johns Hopkins Medicine Website , schizophrenia is “a mental illness that usually strikes in late adolescence or early adulthood, but can strike at any time in life” that is characterized by “delusions, hallucinations, bizarre behavior, [and] disorganized speech” among other symptoms. Schizophrenia is, at its core, the altering of a person’s perception of reality by some somatic means and when observed by a psychologically sound individual, can be quite unsettling. After all, seeing a person whose reality is fractured causes us to doubt our own reality, if only in a fleeting thought.
Schizophrenia is an internal disease caused by fundamental organizational differences in the brain. It begins to be noticed in a person's late teens through twenties. Signs of it can be seen from early childhood and it is now being hypothesized that it is actually present during adolescence (1). Since this hypothesis extends to fetal development, brain formation in the earliest stages is effected. The alteration of pathways and deviation of neurotransmitters from normal arrangement is believed to be a factor behind the affliction. The brain of these individuals forms differently. Neurotransmitters are believed to misfire altering the chemical balance of the brain causing behavioral problems. There are deficits in cortical and subcortical cognitive processes (5). There are also enlarged ventricles in the brain causing further impairment of ability (3). When the disease is present there are certain symptoms that are easily recognizable. They fall into three categories overt, negative, and positive. The overt symptoms are delusions, hallucinations, alteration of the senses, inability to sort and then respond appropriately to incoming sensations, an altered sense of self, and changes in behavior (2). The negative symptoms are emotional flatness, inability to start or follow through on activities, brief speech lacking content, and lack of pleasure or interest in life (2). All of these include an inhibition on processing information and further imply a differentiation in the normal self. The basic information above provides a solid background to understanding the disease and already possible problems to a person's I-function can be seen.
I will first talk about the positive symptoms of schizophrenia. One of the most occurring positive symptoms is hallucinations. Hallucinations are false perceptions, inaccuracies that affect a person's senses and cause us to hear, see, taste, touch, or smell what others do not. Some people with schizophrenia will hear voices that can be reassuring and yet they can be very menacing. Allot of times these voices lead people to hurt themselves or just do abnormal things. Hallucinations, usually the same ones over and over, take control of a person and leave them feeling victimized.
People begin to experience three broad symptoms which are negative symptoms, cognitive impairment, and then followed by psychotic symptoms. A person with schizophrenia may experience is negative symptoms. These are deficit states in which emotional and behavioral processes are reduced or not present. People with negative symptoms may be diagnosed with depression or other conditions because the symptoms are hard to recognize as part of schizophrenia. Symptoms may include anhedonia, flat affect, apathy, and alogia. Flat affect is when a person’s face doesn’t move or they talk in a dull voice. People with these symptoms may also lack the motivation to begin or maintain planned activities and lack the ability to feel pleasure. This person will also need assistance with everyday tasks such a...
Schizophrenia When a person hears the term Schizophrenia, the first thought that comes to mind is "Crazy" or "Insanity." Often confused with Disassociate Identity Disorder (a.k.a. multiple personalities), Schizophrenia is a psychiatric disorder that is characterized by a wide variety of symptoms and the disorganization of thought processes and emotions. Although Schizophrenia is considered one of the most severe and frequent forms of mental disorders, scientists continue to search for a cure and new forms of treatment for this incurable disease whose causes are still unknown. Of all the functional psychoses, Schizophrenia is by far the most incapacitating and a devastating brain disease which has torn apart the lives of many including victims of this disease and their families.
What is Schizophrenia? Schizophrenia is brain disorder that makes it hard to see the difference between reality and imagination, have normal emotional responses, and act normal in social situations. Schizophrenia is relatively young, it has only been around for less than 100 years. It was first discovered by Dr. Emile Kraeplin in 1887. He believed it was a mental illness. A few documents take Schizophrenia’s origins back to Egypt during the Pharaoh’s rule around 1550 B.C. People originally thought schizophrenia was simply madness, and usually associated it with madness, even though it is quite different from madness. Symptoms of this disease include Positive symptoms, which are: hallucinations, or things that someone can see, feel, smell, or hear that do not really exist. Many people hear voices inside their heads, see people that are not there, or smell odors no one else smells. Delusions are another symptom, also known as bizarre beliefs, these may include paranoid delusions also, which are delusions that tell the person that others are trying to hurt them. Thought Disorders are a symptom in which the person thinks unusually or dysfunctionally. Movement disorders may be present in schizophrenic people, they may seem like twitches or small, sharp, and sudden movements. Schizophrenia’s “negative symptoms” are harder to recognize. These include the flat affect, in which the persons face doesn’t move and the voice is droning. The lack of pleasure in life is another once, along with the lack of ability to start and sustain activities, and little speech. These symptoms prevent or block the person from living a normal life because they cause social, physical, and emotional, and mental problems. This may lead to psychosis, insanity, or ...
Two Greek words: ‘psyche’ (soul or mind) and ‘pathy’ (suffering or disease), were combined in the 19th century by German Psychiatrists, to form a word that would describe the most dangerous and violent of all humans. Psychopathy, today, is called ‘mental disorder’, the study of which is still known as psychopathology. Other relating terms like 'constitutional (inborn) psychopaths' or 'psychopathic personalities' were used through the early 20th century to cover anyone socially undesirable in any way or those who violated legal laws and moral expectations.
Antisocial personality disorder, or ASPD, is marked by a series of socially unacceptable behaviors. Donald Black, professor and author in the field of Social Sciences, discusses the development and characteristics of ASPD in his article “The Natural History of Antisocial Personality Disorder.” ASPD can be present in adults as well as children. In fact, the misbehavior initiates quite early on in development. However, a child with this disorder would be diagnosed with “conduct disorder” which is simply another term for ASPD used for minors.
S.B. was brutally beaten up by the Wardens of the jail. The case history reveals that S.B. was jailed twice before for cheating and for assaulting one of his friends. This time, S.B. was jailed for fighting with a police constable. During interrogation, S.B admitted that he had beaten the other inmate who refused to pay money. S.B wanted to show his power and there was no regret for his actions.