Psychopathological Behavior Essay

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PSYCHOPATHOLOGICAL BEHAVIOUR
Defining psychopathological behaviour comprise of dysfunction of psychological mechanisms and negative impacts against social and physical health, in consonance with Dr. Jerome Wakefield’s notion of “Harmful Dysfunction”.

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) uses the notion, as their basis of identifying antisocial personality disorder and its definition. The General Criteria for personality disorders, underlines the diagnosis of antisocial personality disorder (or social disorder) – the argumentative, oppositional and noncompliant behaviours (Reference http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Paul_Frick/publication/26890880_Antisocial_behavior_from_a_developmental_psychopathology_perspective/links/00b49528f7ab23520f000000.pdf). …show more content…

Furthermore, the DSM categorises personality disorders into three subtypes or clusters:
Subtype Classification and Examples
Cluster A Odd/Eccentric: E.g. Paranoid personality disorder, Schizoid personality disorder and Schizotypal personality disorder.
Cluster B Dramatic/Erratic: E.g. Borderline personality disorder, Antisocial personality disorder, Histrionic personality disorder and Narcissistic personality disorder.
Cluster C Anxious/Inhibited: E.g. Dependent personality disorder, Avoidant personality disorder and Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder. (Reference) FIGURE ONE http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/healthlibrary/conditions/mental_health_disorders/personality_disorders_85,p00760/ ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER
Antisocial personality disorder falls under the category of the personality disorder criteria, as it essentially involves the impairment in self and interpersonal functioning and pathological personality traits deterioration.
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As the diagnosis of antisocial includes the impairment of interpersonal functioning, individuals affected manifest:
• Lack of empathy – No concern for various emotions of others and remorse after maltreatment
• Intimacy – Inability for sustaining mutually intimate relationships. Examples of primary strategies to initiate relationships is presenting relations to others in order to deceit, instigate coercion, dominance or intimidation. Consequently, providing them the advantage to manipulate.
PATHOLOGICAL PERSONALITY TRAITS
Pathological personality or personality psychology, relates to frequent patterns of emotion, cognition and behaviour, in which are stimulated through specific situation which results to affect social adaptation. In terms of clinical psychology and psychiatry, the characterization of personality pathology by means of adaptive inflexibility, maladaptive behaviour in vicious cycles and instability of emotions through stress (reference?). In antisocial personality disorder, traits are characterised in the following

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