Anti-Personality Disorder

Introduction: The term “Antisocial Personality Disorder” was preceded by a number of others that stem from the early nineteenth century. Prichard (1835) introduced the concept of “Moral Insanity” to designate criminals who manifested an absence of control and ethical sense. A morally insane individual was considered to have an impaired intellect but to be nevertheless, incapable of “conducting himself with decency and propriety”. Some decades later the concept of “constitutional psychotic inferiority” was introduced. It was based on the unproved assumption that a severe type of impulsive, antisocial behavior disorder could only occur if the individual had a constitutional defect of the nervous system. In the first half of the present century the term “Psychopathic Personality” came into widespread used in the United States and is still frequently employed. A psychopath is defined by the American Psychiatric Association as a “Person whose behavior is predominantly amoral or antisocial and characterized by impulsive, irresponsible actions satisfying only immediate and narcissistic interests, without concern for obvious and implicit social consequences, accompanied with minimal outward evidence of anxiety and guilt.” Most of these terms and concepts are plagued by confusion in the criteria used to define them. In part, the concepts are defined by a social criterion but in larger part they are defined negatively, by exclusion: moral insanity and psychopathy designates those social maladjustment that are not due to mental defect, neurosis, psychosis and so forth. Antisocial person appears to be lacking an inner moral censor, and often commits criminal acts, without anxiety or guilt, in order to obtain immediate gratification of desires. The Antisocial personality disorder is a type of chronic mental illness in which your ways of thinking, perceiving situations and relating to others are dysfunctional. People with this disorder appear to be charming at times,