antisocial personality disorder
noun
: a personality disorder that is characterized by antisocial behavior exhibiting pervasive disregard for and violation of the rights, feelings, and safety of others starting in childhood or the early teenage years and continuing into adulthood
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Published by Simon & Schuster, the new memoir traces the life of a girl who grew into a woman trying to understand her sociopathy, which today is often labeled as antisocial personality disorder.
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Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2024
Ideas By Patric Gagne April 2, 2024 7:00 AM EDT
Gagne is a writer, former therapist, and advocate for people suffering from sociopathic, psychopathic, and antisocial personality disorders.
—Patric Gagne, TIME, 2 Apr. 2024
Psychologist Mary Trump deduces, from family history and close observation, that her uncle, Donald Trump, meets the criteria for narcissistic as well as, probably, antisocial personality disorder, at the extreme end of which is sociopathy.
—Diana Kwon, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2023
Scott Bonn: Serial killers who may be psychopaths or sociopaths have antisocial personality disorders for which there is no cure.
—Alaa Elassar, CNN, 24 July 2023
Cunningham said that in his view, antisocial personality disorder could not account for Miller's actions.
—Lane Sainty, The Arizona Republic, 8 Feb. 2023
As noted by Mayo Clinic, patients with antisocial personality disorder usually can’t distinguish between right and wrong, and have no regard for other people’s feelings—which certainly sounds like Joe.
—Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 10 Mar. 2023
Kelly Scott, a therapist at Tribeca Therapy, told the publication that Joe exhibits symptoms of both antisocial personality disorder and narcissistic personality disorder (presumably among other more sinister conditions).
—Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 10 Mar. 2023
Prosecutors are trying to show that Cruz’s murder of 17 people at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School four years ago was driven by antisocial personality disorder – commonly known as being a sociopath – and not fetal alcohol spectrum disorder as the defense contends.
—From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 29 Sep. 2022
Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2024
Ideas By Patric Gagne April 2, 2024 7:00 AM EDT
Gagne is a writer, former therapist, and advocate for people suffering from sociopathic, psychopathic, and antisocial personality disorders.
—Patric Gagne, TIME, 2 Apr. 2024
Psychologist Mary Trump deduces, from family history and close observation, that her uncle, Donald Trump, meets the criteria for narcissistic as well as, probably, antisocial personality disorder, at the extreme end of which is sociopathy.
—Diana Kwon, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2023
Scott Bonn: Serial killers who may be psychopaths or sociopaths have antisocial personality disorders for which there is no cure.
—Alaa Elassar, CNN, 24 July 2023
Cunningham said that in his view, antisocial personality disorder could not account for Miller's actions.
—Lane Sainty, The Arizona Republic, 8 Feb. 2023
As noted by Mayo Clinic, patients with antisocial personality disorder usually can’t distinguish between right and wrong, and have no regard for other people’s feelings—which certainly sounds like Joe.
—Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 10 Mar. 2023
Kelly Scott, a therapist at Tribeca Therapy, told the publication that Joe exhibits symptoms of both antisocial personality disorder and narcissistic personality disorder (presumably among other more sinister conditions).
—Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 10 Mar. 2023
Prosecutors are trying to show that Cruz’s murder of 17 people at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School four years ago was driven by antisocial personality disorder – commonly known as being a sociopath – and not fetal alcohol spectrum disorder as the defense contends.
—From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 29 Sep. 2022
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