PSYCH 3CC3 Lecture Notes - Psychopathy Checklist, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Hervey M. Cleckley
29 Nov 2013
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Dsm does not contain the construct of psychopathy; did appear in the very first dsm, replaced with anti-social personality disorder. Psychopathy is a synonym for the antisocial personality but most people do not consider these things to be the same. Difference: antisocial focuses on illegal and unlawful behaviour and is the primary criteria for antisocial disorder; psychopathy includes behaviour and personality characteristics (broader but fewer people meet the criteria for psychopathy than antisocial personality) Most murderers are not psychopaths; most psychopaths are not killers. Defective ability to restrain: the reckless gratification of immediate egotistical desires. White these individuals are sane by legal criteria, there is something that is even more dangerous in psychopaths than those who are insane. Immunity from anxiety or worried in concerning situation. Does not need a big trigger to become upset. Does not take much to engage in antisocial behaviour. Commit in the absence of any apparent goals at all.
