Psychopathic Personality Disorder

Psychopathic Disorder

TDSYCHOPATHIC disorder is de?/ fined in the 1959 Mental Health as "a persistent disorder or disability of mind (whether or not ?deluding subnormality of intelligence) which results in abnormally aggressive or seriously irresponsible conduct on the part of the patient, and requires or is susceptible to medial treatment". The Act also specifies lhat promiscuity or other immoral conduct should not...

Using the Psychopathic Personality Inventory to identify subtypes of antisocial personality disorder

Available online 11 January 2013 Purpose: Poythress, Edens, et al. (2010) recently used cluster analysis to identify subtypes of antisocial and psychopathic offenders using a diverse collection of theoretically important clustering variables. Two predicted subtypes, primary and secondary psychopathy,were identified, in addition to non-psychopathic and (unexpectedly) “fearful” psychopathic offen...

Psychopathic personality in young people

This article is an overview of developments in psychopathy and their application to children and adolescents. A key question is whether or not psychopathy is stable throughout the lifespan. Some characteristics indicate phenotypic similarities with adult psychopathy, and current instruments appear to be measuring similar constructs across the age ranges. Although the literature on developmental...

Psychopathic disorder : a category mistake ?

Although the concept ofpsychopathy retains its currency in British psychiatry, apparently being meaningful as well as useful to practitioners (1), it is often taken to refer to a purely legal category with social controlfunctions rather than a medical diagnosis with treatment implications. I wish, in this briefarticle, to suggest that it is essentially, and most usefully, an ethical category wh...

The Relation between Crime and Psychopathic Personality