Antisocial Personality Disorder Case Study

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Antisocial In this paper I will be discussing the causes, symptoms, treatments and cures of the psychological disorder called Antisocial personality disorder. Antisocial personality disorder is also known as sociopathy. Sociopathy is a mental condition where someone continuously shows that they are not able to tell the difference between right and wrong. They also chose to ignore the feelings and rights of others they come in contact with. People with antisocial personality disorder tend to be the antagonizer, manipulate and treat others unkindly and seem to have no feelings of remorse because this disorder defeats the personals morals. They are incapable of containing guilt or remorse for their behaviors. Individuals who have antisocial
This prisoner is a 28 year old male,S.B., was seen by a Psychiatrist named Calcutta after getting into a fight with another inmate over a bet. S.B was brutally beaten up by the Wardens of the jail. The case history reveals that S.B was jailed twice before for cheating case and for assaulting one of his friend. This time S.B was jailed for fighting with a police constable. During interrogation S.B admit that he has beaten the other inmate who refused to pay money. S.B wanted to show his power and there was no regret for his action. Family history showed his neglected childhood and his father left his home at the age of six years old and his mother had a hidden relationship with their neighbor. This example shows the typical way people get diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder. Due to this occurrence at the beginning of S.Bs life of neglect as a child by his father and being left for his mother who was having affairs with his next door neighbor he began to develop APD even though it was unknown at the time. Then once S.B was left without any parent or real guardians in his life he started to abuse drugs and alcohol and soon enough got caught up and wound up in jail. All of these events leading to him being in jail caused him to have antisocial personality
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