Patients 9365 boys who had a non-psychotic, non-major affective psychiatric disorder from a cohort of 124 244 boys aged 16–17 years who had a mandatory medical and psychiatric health assessment by the Israeli draft board. Adolescents with affective disorders and those who were admitted to hospital for schizophrenia prior to or within 1 year after the draft board assessment were excluded from th...

Antisocial personality‌has some clear symptoms as impulsivity, unstable emotions, aggression, drinking, use of drugs, early initiation of sexual behavior make some difficulties and problems in their relations with family members and those who have interaction with them and at least in society. According to the mentioned symptoms of this personality disorder in this research project, it has been...

Predictive data supporting prevention of violent criminality are scarce. We examined risk factors for recidivism and mortality among non-psychotic alcoholic violent offenders, the majority having antisocial or borderline personality disorders, or both, which is a group that commits the majority of violent offences in Finland. Criminal records and mortality data on 242 male alcoholic violent off...

56 In the last 50 years, personality disorder has achieved a level of understanding and, indeed, respectability that now allows it to be considered as an equal partner with other mental disorders. Before the 1960s, personality disorder, with the possible exception of the antisocial group, was considered an unreliable and imprecise diagnosis with little or no clinical value. Since then, however,...

Background. Empirical studies on psychopathic personality disorders indicate a correlation between conduct disorder (CD), oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) and attention-deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children and the occurrence of criminal behavior later in life. The present study aims at the theoretical and empirical verification of an assumption appearing in the literature, that ...

The construct validity of psychopathy was examined within a sample of 326 male and female university students. The interpersonal circumplex served as a nomological net for the examination of convergences between psychopathy measures and convergent and discriminant validity with a measure of personality disorders was examined using a matrix approach. Measures included: (a) Antisocial scale of th...

CONTEXT Psychopathic antisocial individuals have previously been characterized by abnormal interhemispheric processing and callosal functioning, but there have been no studies on the structural characteristics of the corpus callosum in this group. OBJECTIVES To assess whether (1) psychopathic individuals with antisocial personality disorder show structural and functional impairments in the co...

BACKGROUND The objective of the study was to estimate the rate of borderline personality disorder (BPD) in male and female offenders newly committed to the Iowa Department of Corrections. We also compared clinical and demographic characteristics of offenders with and without BPD. METHODS A random sample of 220 offenders entering Iowa's prison system were evaluated by using a version of the Mi...

In the last half of the 20th century, research and practice in forensic mental health were focused more on major mental illness than personality disorder. This is both ironic and frustrating. The irony lies in the fact that it was alienists working in forensic settings in the late 19th and early 20th centuries who provided the first clinical descriptions of what we now call personality disorder...