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Forensic Psychology (PSY - 513)

Lesson 24

Objectives

To understand that how and why psychopaths become university goons

To understand that how ASPD are exploited by other psychopaths

To understand the treatability debate

University Goons

Through your own observation and experience you can feel that many individuals with antisocial

personality disorder (ASPD) Join university religious groups. Such groups attract them because:

Such groups gives them a sense of lose belonging, no strong bond is required.

But this membership gives them power.

Power that they can use for violence and influence.

Mostly ASPD have a sense of inadequacy and inferiority. So when they join such groups it

compensates for their sense of inadequacy and inferiority.

5. ASPD terrorize other students for no cause and enjoy that feeling. like beating up the male

students if the are talking to a girl. Although talking to other gender is not a crime but

beating up any one is a crime.

6. After having done this thing they feel good about themselves.

Terrorism and Psychopaths

Many psychopaths turn to extreme religious groups outside the universities. And if the leader of that

extreme religious group is another psychopath, then they are exploited by other psychopath leader.

Now their two qualities make them perfect for terrorist activities.

1. Their lack of fear and thrill seeking behavior helps them carry out dangerous suicidal

tasks.

2. Their lack of victim empathy makes them perfect for harming innocent civilians.

So in this way an ASPD becomes a common criminal to university goon to a terrorist.

Personality disorder specific crime

Different personality disorders commit different specific type of crimes.

Borderline Personality

Suicidal attempts, prostitution

Disorder

Paranoid Personality disorder

One time murder attempt or

murder

Antisocial Personality

Robbery,

rape,

terrorist

Disorder

activities

Treatability Debate

Like predictability and changeability debate, another controversial issue of Forensic psychology is

the treatability of personality disorders. Psychotherapy is nearly always the treatment of choice for

these disorder; medications may be used to help stabilize mood swings or specific and acute Axis I

concurrent diagnoses. There is no research that supports the use of medications for direct treatment

of antisocial personality disorder, though. Usually experts consider Dialectical Behavioral

Therapy as suitable treatment for BPD.

Most individuals with personality disorders rarely seek treatment on their own, without being

mandated to therapy by a court or significant other. Court referrals for assessment and treatment for

this disorder are likely the most common referral source. A careful and thorough assessment will

ensure that the person that the person has antisocial personality disorder. This can often be confused

with simple criminal activity (all criminals do not have this disorder), adult antisocial behavior, and

Forensic Psychology (PSY - 513)

other activities which do not justify the personality disorder diagnosis. As with a thorough

assessment of any suspected personality disorder, formal psychological testing should be considered

invaluable.

Because many people who suffer from this disorder will be mandated to therapy, sometimes in a

forensic or jail setting, motivation on the patient's part may be difficult to find. In a confined setting,

it may be nearly impossible and therapy should then focus on alternative life issues, such as goals

for when they are released from custody, improvement in social or family relationships, learning

new coping skills, etc. we will discuss details of treatment in forth coming lessons.

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