ANTISOCIAL

PERSONALITY DISORDER
Group 13
Presentation by- Vasundhara, Anusha, Shruti Shah, Tanisha, Chitra
Section- A
B.A. Hons. Psychology
•Prosocial behavior refers to any
action that benefits another individual
•They are essential in nurturing
positive relationships and social
adjustment (Dovidio, 2006)
•Prosocial behavior is encouraged as it
enhances the immune system,
promotes the release of oxytocin (a
hormone which promotes social
bonding), and facilitates frontal
cortical processes
•According to Sanstock (2007), the
circumstances most likely to evoke
altruism are empathy for an individual
in need, or a close relationship
between the benefactor and the
recipient.
Difference between
Prosocial and Antisocial
Behavior
• Prosocial and antisocial
behaviour are psychological
terms which may be
explained by evolutionary
and social learning theories
as they may be both
necessary for survival and
may be learned through
imitation.
•The development of such
behaviors may also be
influenced by family
history, peer groups, school
environment,and genetics. .
 WHAT IS ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOUR?
•Antisocial behavior generally refers to any act
which intends to harm or negatively impact
another individual
•The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of
Mental Disorders, fifth edition (DSM-5)
characterizes antisocial personality disorder as
a pervasive pattern of disregard for and
violation of others’ rights. This is exemplified
by deceitfulness, aggressiveness, reckless
disregard for safety, consistent
irresponsibility, lack of remorse, and related
acts.
•Antisocial behavior is generally discouraged as
it stimulates threat processing and activates
stress responses. It also lessens secure and
cooperative relationships and demotivates
trust, unity and harmony in societies.
•According to Patterson (1990), antisocial
behaviour appears to be a developmental trait
that begins early in life and often continues into
adolescence and adulthood.
•There is also a link found between environmental
factors with antisocial behaviours. According to
Patterson (1992), environmental factors are the
main causes of antisocial behaviour. These factors
include parents, peers, and schools which believed
to be able to influence the wholesome development
in the child, either in the aspects of physical,
affective, social, and spiritual.
USA school shooting: 18-year-old gunman kills 18 children, and three adults in Texas
after killing his own grandmother.
•During the same 1984–1994 period, those aged 18–20 had a similar large jump and over the
years since, those homicide arrest rates have significantly receded to one-third of the peak
in 1994. When rates receded, the 15–17-year-old group dropped back to being below the 21–
24-year-old group. The 18–20-year-old group continued to claim the highest number of
homicide arrests through 2018 (Office of Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention, 2019

•Researches argued that adolescents are more vulnerable to external influences, namely peer
pressure and their family and neighborhood conditions. The brief claimed that juveniles are
more likely to commit crimes in groups and that criminal behavior was associated with
exposure to delinquent peers.

•Moffitt’s (1993) developmental taxonomy posits three broad groups of juvenile offenders: 1)
abstainers from antisocial conduct, 2) persistent offenders who continue to break the law,
often with serious and violent offenses, and 3) those whose offenses are typically limited to
adolescence and are trivial or benign in nature.
 CHARACTERISTICS
Tendency to persistently disregard and violate the rights of others.

Engage in a combination of deceitful, aggressive, and antisocial

behaviors.

Have a lifelong pattern of unsocialized and irresponsible behavior

with little regard for safety—either their own or that of others.

Repeated conflict with society, and a high proportion end up

becoming incarcerated.
● Only individuals aged 18 or over can be diagnosed with
ASPD. For the diagnosis to be made, the person must have
shown symptoms of conduct disorder before age 15.

● After age 15, there must also be evidence of such things as

repeated unlawful behavior, deceitfulness, impulsivity,
aggressiveness, or consistent irresponsibility in work or
financial matters.
● The prevalence of antisocial personality disorder in the
general population is around 2 to 3 percent (Glenn et al.,
2013). The disorder is more common in men (approximately 3
percent) than in women (approximately 1 percent), although
some studies suggest that the preponderance of men is even
greater and closer to 5 to 1 (Hare et al., 2012).

● Around 47 percent of incarcerated men and 21 percent of

incarcerated women qualify for the diagnosis.
 Callousness

Deceitfulness

Hostility

High Betrayal
Trauma Impulsivity
ANTISOCIAL
Medium Betrayal PERSONALITY
Trauma DISORDER Irresponsibility

Low Betrayal
Manipulativeness
Trauma

Risk Taking
 CRITERIA
A pervasive pattern of
disregard for and
A
violation of the rights
of others, occurring
since age 15 years, as
The individual is at B
indicated by three (or
least age 18 years.
more) of the following

The occurrence of C There is evidence of

antisocial behavior is conduct disorder with
not exclusively during D onset before age
the course of 15 years.
schizophrenia or
bipolar disorder..
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CRITERIA “A” ELABORATION
● Failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors, as indicated by
repeatedly performing acts that are grounds for arrest.
● Deceitfulness, as indicated by repeated lying, use of aliases, or conning others for
personal profit or pleasure.
● Impulsivity or failure to plan ahead.
● Irritability and aggressiveness, as indicated by repeated
physical fights or assaults.
● Reckless disregard for safety of self or others.
● Consistent irresponsibility, as indicated by repeated failure to sustain consistent work
behavior or honor financial obligations.
● Lack of remorse, as indicated by being indifferent to or rationalizing having hurt,
mistreated, or stolen from another.
 Case Study: Ryan
● A 17 year old male, sent for psychiatric evaluation in a
psychiatric hospital. He had been hospitalized six times for
problems related to drug use and absenteeism. He was being
interviewed to assess why he was admitted this time.
● First impression- cooperative and pleasant. He regretted many
things and was looking forward to moving on with his life. It
was later found out that he was never truly remorseful for
anything.
● The second interview- was quite different. In the 48 hours since the
first interview, Ryan had done a number of things that showed why he
needed a great deal of help. Threatened a 15-year-old girl named Ann
who attended class with him in the hospital school.

● Before his admittance to the hospital- Ryan involved with a group of

teens who went to the local cemetery at night to perform satanic rituals,
dug up graves to get skulls for their parties, just to scare off children.
Also, a young man was stabbed to death by the group over a drug
purchase.
● Confession about addiction to PCP, or “angel dust,”, - a mind- altering
drug. He routinely made the 2-hour trip to New York City to buy
drugs in a particularly dangerous neighborhood. He denied that he was
ever nervous. This wasn’t machismo; he really seemed unconcerned.

● Family therapy sessions, his pattern of showing supposed regret and

remorse and then stealing money from his parents and going back onto
the street were discussed. Most of the discussions centered on trying
to give his parents the courage to say no to him and not to believe his
lies.
● Ryan said he had seen the “error of his ways” and that he felt bad he had
hurt his parents. The psychiatrist smiled, applauded, and told him it was the
best performance they had ever seen. Ryan’s parents were astounded that he
had again tricked them into believing him. He was eventually discharged to a
drug rehabilitation program. Within 4 weeks, he had convinced his parents to
take him home, and within 2 days he had stolen all their cash and
disappeared; he apparently went back to his friends and to drugs.

● When he was in his 20s, after one of his many arrests for theft, he was
diagnosed as having antisocial personality disorder. His parents never
summoned the courage to turn him out or refuse him money, and he continues
to con them into providing him with a means of buying more drugs.
-
CRITERIA “A” ELABORATION
● Failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors, as indicated by
repeatedly performing acts that are grounds for arrest.
● Deceitfulness, as indicated by repeated lying, use of aliases, or conning others for
personal profit or pleasure.
● Impulsivity or failure to plan ahead.
● Irritability and aggressiveness, as indicated by repeated
physical fights or assaults.
● Reckless disregard for safety of self or others.
● Consistent irresponsibility, as indicated by repeated failure to sustain consistent work
behavior or honor financial obligations.
● Lack of remorse, as indicated by being indifferent to or rationalizing having hurt,
mistreated, or stolen from another.
 “I have hatred inside me. I don’t care how
much I be somebody. . . The more I hear
somebody, the more anger I get inside me. . . .
I used drugs when I was . . . probably 9 or 10
years old . . . smoked marijuana. . . . First time
I drank some alcohol I think I was probably
about 3 years old. . . . I assaulted a woman.
. . . I had so much anger. . . I was just like a
bomb . . . it’s just ticking . . . and the way I’m
going, that bomb was going to blow up in me.
I wouldn’t be able to get away from it . . . going
to be a lot of people hurt. . . . I’m not going out
without taking somebody with me.”
 ASPD AND CRIMINALITY

Of the 5-year-olds
determined to be at
high risk for later
delinquent behavior,
16% did indeed have
run-ins with the law by
the age of 15, and 84%
did not.
Certain psychiatric conditions do
increase a person’s risk of
committing a crime. Research
suggests that patients with mental
illness may be more prone to
violence if they do not receive
adequate treatment, are actively
experiencing delusions, or have long-
standing paranoia or hallucinations.
Other comorbidities include
conditions such as substance use
disorder, unemployment,
homelessness, and secondary
effects of mental illness such as
cognitive impairment, compound the
risk of committing a violent crime
(Noman Ghiasi et al, 2022)
This 15th-century
Transylvanian ruler is
the basis for the Dracula
myth
. He didn’t have the bat
wings, but he was
extremely brutal and
bloodthirsty. As his name
suggests, he would often
leave people impaled and
put on display outside his
castle as they suffered a
slow, painful death. It is
estimated that he impaled
roughly 20,000 people and
killed a total of 80,000.
 Ted Bundy was known to be
very sly and charming, which
was the shiny veneer he used
to lure his many victims. He
killed at least 30 people across
the United States, but it took
years for the authorities to
catch him, because no one was
able to believe such an
“upstanding” young man could
do such horrible things.
 The Nithari Killers

Mohinder Singh Pandher was a

wealthy business man from
Noida who was arrested along
with his domestic help,
Surindher Koli in connection to
the
discovery of skulls of 16 missi
ng children in Nithari village b
etween 2005 and 2006
.
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