PERSONALITY DISORDERS

    A) Definition
    Disorders consisting of inflexible, long-standing, maladaptive personality traits that cause significantly impaired functioning in one's personal & social life

     
    B) Types of Personality Disorder

     
    C) Antisocial Personality Disorder
    Cleckley's checklist of characteristics:
      1. Superficial charm and good intelligence
      2. Shallow emotions, lack of empathy
      3. Little life plan or order
      4. Failure to learn from experience, lack of anxiety
      5. Unreliability and lying

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                    Etiology of Antisocial Personality Disorder
                                             
                                                                             

            

                                                                                   


 
 

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