JSB174 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Antisocial Personality Disorder, Psychopathy, Mental Disorder
Document Summary
Abnormal behaviour is behaviour that significantly differs from some consensually agreed upon norm and that is in some way harmful to the differently behaving person or to other people. Criminal behaviour and mental disorders are largely unrelated, however both are complex but with a number of antecedents. Some of the associations found between mental disorder and violence include: a history of prior violence, comorbidity with other disorders, in particular substance abuse. Overall, there are some associations found between mental disorders and violent behaviour but the majority of recorded crimes are not committed by mentally ill individuals. Psychopathy is not currently considered a personality disorder under the dsm-v. However, it is a cluster of personality traits that include callousness, manipulation, lack of remorse, lack of empathy, impulsiveness and antisocial behaviour. On the other hand sociopathy is a label used to describe a person whose psychopathic traits are assumed to be due to environmental factors.
