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Personality Disorders

By Hannah Logan & Marissa Trujillo


What It Is
A personality disorder is a type of mental disorder in which you
have a rigid or unhealthy pattern of thinking, functioning and
behaving. A person with a personality disorder can have trouble
perceiving and relating to situations and to people.

Having a personality disorder could cause significant problems and


limitations in relationships, social encounters, work and school.
What is Antisocial Personality Disorder
Antisocial PD is characterized by a callous unconcern for the feelings of
others. The person disregards social rules and obligations, is irritable and
aggressive, acts impulsively, lacks guilt, and fails to learn from experience.

The severity of the symptoms for Antisocial PD can vary:

Sociopaths hold a conscious, its just weak.

Whereas Psychopaths have no conscious at all.


Symptoms of Antisocial PD
Disregard for right and wrong

Persistent lying or deceit to exploit others

Using charm or wit to manipulate others for personal gain or for sheer personal pleasure

Intense egocentrism, sense of superiority and exhibitionism

Repeatedly violating the rights of others by the use of intimidation, dishonesty and misrepresentation

Hostility, significant irritability, agitation, impulsiveness, aggression or violence

Lack of empathy for others and lack of remorse about harming others

Unnecessary risk-taking or dangerous behaviors

Poor or abusive relationships

Failure to learn from the negative consequences of behavior


Causes
The cause of antisocial personality disorder is unknown. Though a combination of
environmental and genetic

Genetics: Some people may have genes that make them vulnerable to developing
antisocial personality disorder, those who have a biological parent who has APD are more
vulnerable to developing APD.

Environment: The surrounding a person has may also affect their risk of developing
APD. An early lack of empathy or having a role model that has Antisocial tendencies, can
makes someone more likely to develop APD.

Men are at greater risk of having APD than women.


Treatment & Prevention
APD is one of the hardest personality disorders to treat. Individuals rarely
seek treatment on their own, there is no real treatment for APD.

There is also no sure way to prevent APD, Although trying to identify those
most at risk early on, such as children living with neglect or abuse, and
offering early intervention may help prevent APD.

Early, effective and appropriate discipline, lessons in behavioral skills, family


therapy, and psychotherapy MAY help reduce the chance that at-risk children
go on to become adults with APD.
APD & Crime
United States prisons are known to host a high percentage of psychopaths
and sociopaths.

Up to 80 percent of male prison inmates were shown to exhibit signs and


symptoms of antisocial personality disorder.

As much as 65 percent of imprisoned women are sociopaths.

Most are charged with accounts of violence or abuse.


Effects of APD
Physical

Insomnia

Suicidal behavior

Bodily damage, often resulting from physical assaults and/or aggressiveness

Impulsive or reckless accidents that may result in injury or death

Unsafe sexual behaviors

Psychological

Mood instability and/or extremes.

Severe depression and/or manic episodes.


Effects of APD Cont.
Social Effects

An inability to start or maintain relationships.

Isolation from others, often due to aggressive or manipulative behaviors.

Damaged relationships, due to destructive behaviors.

Familial or marital conflicts.

Decreased performance in work and/or school.


What is the anterior insular cortex?
Psychopaths AIC is the portion of the brain that processes
empathy and is necessary for emotional
Disassociated from their awareness.
feelings
Empathy
have no conscience
The anterior insular cortex is where the
have no emotions like trust,
feeling of empathy originates and is the part
morality, and love of the brain that processes empathy, but the
love for a psychopath isnt the
same as in typical people rule of psychopaths is that they have no
empathy.
usually dont seek an Empathy is defined as the ability to perceive
emotional connection and share another person's emotional state.
selfless love is impossible
The Brain with APD
Those Famous with APD
Ted Bundy: A serial killer in the 1970s who admitted to 23 murders before
he was sentenced to death, he was charged for rape and murder. Bundy was
charming and likable while at the same time extremely manipulative. He
showed no feelings of remorse for any of his victims, He was also very
intelligent and used this to his advantage. Bundy committed his crimes in 5
different states (that we know of) one being Utah. Bundy had a rare form of
APD with absolutely no signs in early childhood.

Jeffrey Dahmer: Also known as the "Milwaukee Cannibal", was a serial killer
that terrorized Milwaukee, Wisconsin from the eighties and nineties, earning
the reputation as one of the most infamous killers in American history.
Dahmer's murders were cruel and sickening, He is credited with killing more
than 15 young boys. Dahmer showed early signs of APD in childhood.
Famous with APD Cont.
Tommy Lynn Sells: Famously known as the Coast to Coast Killer, he
claimed to have killed more than 20 - 50 people as he traveled through the
country. He was abandoned and later lived with a man in his hometown who
sexually abused him from age 13 - 15 when he left and traveled as a
transient, he committed his first murder at the age of 15 in Mississippi.

Dahmer

Bundy Sells
References
http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/personality-disorders/b
asics/definition/con-20030111

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/hide-and-seek/201205/the-10-p
ersonality-disorders

https://www.psychologytoday.com/conditions/antisocial-personality-dis
order

http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/features/sociopath-psychopath-
difference
References Cont.
http://www.psychohelp.at/h/college/abnormal/aspd.shtml

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Bundy

http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/~karl/Anterior%20Insular%20Cortex%20and%20
Emotional%20Awareness.pdf
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121024175240.htm
http://neurocritic.blogspot.com.au/2013/07/the-stylized-neuroscience-of-psych
opaths.html
https://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/70136126?trkid=200250784

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