AN ANALYSIS ON ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER OF KEVIN IN “WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN MOVIE DIRECTED” BY LYNNE RAMSAY

The aim of this analysis is to know and understand the criteria, causes, influence, characters and moral messages of Kevin in Analysis on Antisocial Personality Disorder of Kevin in “We Need to talk about Kevin Movie Directed by Lynne Ramsay”. This method uses descriptive qualitative analysis. The analytical results obtained are: (1) Criteria of antisocial personality disorder of Kevin namely among the other things deceitfulness, irritability, aggressiveness, reckless, disregard for safety of his own self or for others and lack of remorse. (2) The causes of antisocial personality disorder on Kevin is less responsive (genetic) and neglect of family on Kevin (Environment). (3) Kevin’s behaviour influencing the others is posing of a threat and (4) Moral message that people should anticipate with antisocial personality disorder is that people should not hurt the person and should communicate with him very well. As a result, Kevin has the characters of aggressiveness, easily lying and can injure others without feeling any guilt.

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The Continuum of Conscientiousness: The Antagonistic Interests among Obsessive and Antisocial Personalities

Polish Psychological Bulletin ◽

10.2478/ppb-2014-0022 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 45 (2) ◽

pp. 167-178 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Steven C. Hertler

Keyword(s):

Personality Disorder ◽

Evolutionary Theory ◽

Antisocial Personality Disorder ◽

The Other ◽

Antisocial Personality ◽

Obsessive Compulsive ◽

Demographic Differences ◽

Other Hand ◽

The Continuum

Abstract The five factor trait of conscientiousnessis a supertrait, denoting on one hand a pattern of excessive labor, rigidity, orderliness and compulsivity,and on the other hand a pattern of strict rectitude, scrupulosity, dutifulness and morality. In both respects the obsessive-compulsive personality is conscientious; indeed, it has been labeled a disorder of extreme conscientiousness (Widiger et al., 2009). Antisocial personality disorder, in the present paper, is described as occupying the opposite end of the conscientiousness continuum. The antisocial is impulsive rather than compulsive, illicit rather than licit, and furtive rather than forthright.After clinically comparing the obsessive and antisocial personalities, the present paper invokes evolutionary theory to explain their resultant behavioral, ideological, political and demographic differences.

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The Continuum of Conscientiousness: The Antagonistic Interests among Obsessive and Antisocial Personalities

Polish Psychological Bulletin ◽

10.2478/ppb-2014-0008 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 45 (1) ◽

pp. 52-63 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Steven C. Hertler

Keyword(s):

Personality Disorder ◽

Evolutionary Theory ◽

Antisocial Personality Disorder ◽

The Other ◽

Antisocial Personality ◽

Obsessive Compulsive ◽

Demographic Differences ◽

Other Hand ◽

The Continuum

Abstract The five factor trait of conscientiousness is a supertrait, denoting on one hand a pattern of excessive labor, rigidity, orderliness and compulsivity, and on the other hand a pattern of strict rectitude, scrupulosity, dutifulness and morality. In both respects the obsessive-compulsive personality is conscientious; indeed, it has been labeled a disorder of extreme conscientiousness (Widiger et al., 2009). Antisocial personality disorder, in the present paper, is described as occupying the opposite end of the conscientiousness continuum. The antisocial is impulsive rather than compulsive, illicit rather than licit, and furtive rather than forthright.After clinically comparing the obsessive and antisocial personalities, the present paper invokes evolutionary theory to explain their resultant behavioral, ideological, political and demographic differences

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Love Scripts of Persons with Antisocial Personality

Psychological Reports ◽

10.2466/pr0.103.2.371-380 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 103 (2) ◽

pp. 371-380

Author(s):

Barbara Gawda

Keyword(s):

Personality Disorder ◽

Secondary Schools ◽

Adult Students ◽

Antisocial Personality Disorder ◽

The Other ◽

Control Group ◽

Prison Inmates ◽

Antisocial Personality ◽

Emotional Knowledge ◽

Antisocial Tendencies

This study compared the scripts of love among 60 prison inmates diagnosed with Antisocial Personality Disorder and those of 40 inmates without an Antisocial Personality Disorder diagnosis but low antisocial tendencies, and a control group of 100 adult students in extramural or evening secondary schools without Antisocial Personality Disorder traits. The study focused on emotional knowledge about love of the group with Antisocial Personality Disorder, as they present lack of capacity for love. The study was done to examine how they perceive love and how much knowledge they have about love. All described their reactions to a photograph of a couple hugging each other. The content of these scripts, analyzed in terms of description of actors, their actions and emotions, and length of description, was compared among the groups. The scripts of love by antisocial inmates contained more actors' feelings and strong emotions, as well as more descriptions of actors' traits, their actions, and presumptions. The inmates with Antisocial Personality Disorder showed more focus on themselves when they described love than the other inmates and the controls.

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Psychophysiological and behavioural characteristics of individuals comorbid for antisocial personality disorder and schizophrenia-spectrum personality disorder

The British Journal of Psychiatry ◽

10.1192/bjp.bp.106.034801 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 191 (5) ◽

pp. 408-414 ◽

Cited By ~ 19

Author(s):

Robert A. Schug ◽

Adrian Raine ◽

Rand R. Wilcox

Keyword(s):

Personality Disorder ◽

Skin Conductance ◽

Antisocial Personality Disorder ◽

The Other ◽

Control Group ◽

Antisocial Personality ◽

Schizotypal Personality ◽

Schizophrenia Spectrum ◽

Behavioural Characteristics ◽

Reported Crime

BackgroundFew studies have examined people with comorbid schizophrenia-spectrum personality disorder and antisocial personality disorder, a subgroup who may differ psychophysiologically and behaviourally from those with either condition alone.AimsTo test whether individuals with both types of personality disorder are particularly characterised by reduced orienting and arousal and by increased criminal offending.MethodIn a community adult sample, self-reported crime and skin conductance orienting were collected on four diagnostic groups: schizophrenia-spectrum personality disorder only; antisocial personality disorder only; comorbidity of the two disorders; and a control group.ResultsThe comorbid group showed significantly higher levels of criminal behaviour than the other three groups. They also showed reduced skin conductance orienting to neutral tones compared with the other groups, and significantly reduced arousal and orienting to significant stimuli compared with the control group.ConclusionsReduced orienting may reflect a neurocognitive attentional risk factor for both antisocial and schizotypal personality disorders that indirectly reflects a common neural substrate to these disorders.

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