antisocial personality disorder
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- noun
- /ˌæntiˈsoʊʃəl ˈpɜrnəˌsɪlɪti dɪsˈɔrdər/
- Specialized
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trastorno de personalidad antisocial
- Because conduct disorder is associated with a high risk of continuation into adult life in the form of antisocial personality disorder, these findings are consistent with findings indicating that adults with antisocial personality disorder are likely to abuse drugs.
- antisocial personality disorder symptoms
- participants with antisocial personality disorder
A lot of con men have antisocial personality disorder.
- A lot of con men have antisocial personality disorder.
- And, and the therapist said, and there's something else, and I said antisocial personality disorder.
Examples
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Patients with schizophrenia, affective disorder, and antisocial personality disorder remain in Gheel until they are considered recovered by the supervising therapist.
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LaPlante now has an antisocial personality disorder.
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But those with antisocial personality disorder lack empathy and are willing to use others to gain anything they desire.
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So psychopathy shares similar traits with the antisocial personality disorder, but it's considered to be really, really extreme.
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One in 25 people will have the disorders associated with 'no conscience,' which include antisocial personality disorder, sociopath, and psychopath.
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The present findings are consistent with the hypothesis that even low levels of antisocial personality disorder symptomatology tend to be associated with substance use among adolescents.
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Because individuals must be at least 18 years old to be diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder (American Psychiatric Association, 1994), analyses were conducted regarding the association between substance use and the presence of one or more antisocial personality disorder symptoms.
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Approximately 1.0 percent of people aged 18 or over have antisocial personality disorder.
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Adolescents with antisocial personality disorder inflict serious physical and psychological harm on both themselves and others.
Synonyms
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A serious mental condition where a person often harms others, feels no guilt, and acts boldly
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A condition where a person lacks empathy and ignores social rules
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A person who feels no guilt and often hurts or lies to others
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A person who does not care about others, acts without thinking, and feels no guilt
How Antisocial
Surface Forms
Morphology
antisocial + personality + disorder
Each constituent contributes transparently: 'antisocial' (violating social norms), 'personality' (stable pattern of traits), and 'disorder' (a diagnosed condition) combine to yield a diagnosed condition characterized by antisocial personality traits. The composition follows ordinary English noun-modifier + noun + noun patterns and has clear parallels in other languages, so a B1 learner who knows the parts can infer the overall meaning.
Etymology
The term antisocial personality disorder comes from its parts: anti meaning 'against' and social meaning 'being with other people', while personality and disorder mean a lasting problem in how someone behaves. So the name paints the image of a person who is often 'against being with others' and has long-term behaviour that ignores other people's rights and feels little guilt.