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A concise guide to personality disorders.Antisocial personality disorder.

A concise guide to personality disorders.: Antisocial personality disorder. Only the most severe cases of antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) point to a “bad seed” theory. In those patients, callousness seems to represent a defect, either in the capacity for empathy or in the emotional consequences that accompany empathy. This is why some patients do well in combat situations during times of war but fail to adapt to the expectations of a peacetime life. For less severe cases, heritable biological risks may account for a smaller portion of the variance. Many patients grow up in dysfunctional families and are raised in bad neighborhoods and associate with problematic peer groups that do not provide them with positive role models. Thus, interactions among biological, psychological, and social risk factors are required to explain the pathways to this form of psychopathology. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A concise guide to personality disorders.Antisocial personality disorder.

Paris, Joel
American Psychological Association — Apr 27, 2015
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American Psychological Association
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Copyright © 2015 American Psychological Association
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65 –71
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10.1037/14642-006
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Abstract

Only the most severe cases of antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) point to a “bad seed” theory. In those patients, callousness seems to represent a defect, either in the capacity for empathy or in the emotional consequences that accompany empathy. This is why some patients do well in combat situations during times of war but fail to adapt to the expectations of a peacetime life. For less severe cases, heritable biological risks may account for a smaller portion of the variance. Many patients grow up in dysfunctional families and are raised in bad neighborhoods and associate with problematic peer groups that do not provide them with positive role models. Thus, interactions among biological, psychological, and social risk factors are required to explain the pathways to this form of psychopathology. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

Published: Apr 27, 2015

Keywords: antisocial personality disorder; empathy; risk factors

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