Subtyping Adolescent Histrionic Personality Disorder Yields Overlap With Borderline and Psychopathic Personality

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pavel S. Blagov ◽  
Drew Westen
Keyword(s):  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Psychopathic Personality ◽  
Histrionic Personality Disorder

Medical Aspects of Management Problems in Maximum Security Prisons

1979 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-117
Author(s):  
P. J. Pope ◽  
T. C. N. Gibbens
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Psychiatric Hospital ◽  
Psychiatric Treatment ◽  
Great Majority ◽  
Psychopathic Personality ◽  
Fair Share ◽  
Mentally Disordered ◽  
Maximum Security ◽  
Management Problems

Much has been written, especially recently, about the difficulties presented in prisons by the inclusion of mentally disordered or even psychotic offenders who would be more appropriately placed in mental hospitals. This study, carried out in 4 maximum security prisons during 1972–3, concludes that such men do not constitute any more than their fair share of all those who are seen as either disruptive or presenting management problems, probably less. Altogether a fifth of those men identified by prison staff as management problems had had some kind of psychiatric treatment before the sentence began, 4.4 per cent showed evidence of overt mental illness during it and 45 per cent were labelled as having either a psychopathic personality or a personality disorder of some kind. The great majority (85 per cent) of those presenting management problems spent the bulk of their sentences in the general wings of the four prisons and only a handful were felt to be better located in a psychiatric hospital.

Searching for the pan-cultural core of psychopathic personality disorder

2019 ◽  
pp. 53-66
Author(s):  
J. Cooke David ◽  
Michie Christine ◽  
D. Hart Stephen ◽  
Clark Danny
Keyword(s):  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Psychopathic Personality

1. How can we know if someone is a psychopath or is at risk of becoming one?

2019 ◽  
pp. 4-20
Author(s):  
Essi Viding
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Information Processing ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
General Population ◽  
Antisocial Personality Disorder ◽  
Psychopathic Traits ◽  
Psychopathic Personality ◽  
Antisocial Personality ◽  
Psychopathy Checklist ◽  
The Difference

What are individuals with psychopathy like and what are their defining features? ‘How can we know if someone is a psychopath or is at risk of becoming one?’ considers two case studies to give an idea of the developmental course of criminal psychopathy and what psychopathic personality traits look like. It discusses the Psychopathy Checklist, developed by Robert Hare in the 1980s, and explains the difference between antisocial personality disorder, sociopathy, and psychopathy. Research has shown that whether we look at criminal psychopaths, individuals with high levels of psychopathic traits in the general population, or children who are at risk of developing psychopathy, similar patterns of brain function and information processing are seen.

On Moral Judgements and Personality Disorders

1988 ◽  
Vol 153 (4) ◽  
pp. 505-512 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald Blackburn
Keyword(s):  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Antisocial Personality Disorder ◽  
American Psychiatric Association ◽  
Antisocial Behaviour ◽  
World Health ◽  
Psychopathic Personality ◽  
Antisocial Personality ◽  
Specific Category ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Psychopathic Disorder

Psychopathic personality has always been a contentious concept, but it continues to be used in clinical practice and research. It also has its contemporary synonyms in the categories of antisocial personality disorder in DSM–III (American Psychiatric Association, 1980) and “personality disorder with predominantly asocial or sociopathic manifestations” in ICD–9 (World Health Organization, 1978), and some overlap between these and the legal category of psychopathic disorder identified in the English Mental Health Act 1983 is commonly assumed. Although the literal meaning of ‘psychopathic’ is nothing more specific than psychologically damaged, the term has long since been transmogrified to mean socially damaging, and as currently used, it implies a specific category of people inherently committed to antisocial behaviour as a consequence of personal abnormalities or deficiencies.

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