Books On Antisocial Personality Disorder

Sociologyindex,   Antisocial personality disorder, Sociology Books 2011

Antisocial personality disorder is a personality disorder that involves disregard for the rights of others, as well as impulsive, irresponsible and aggressive behaviour.

ASP is intimately connected to many of society's ills, including crime, domestic violence, drug and alcohol abuse, and even rape and murder. For men with severe ASP, life becomes an opportunity to break all social and moral rules without remorse.

Bad Boys, Bad Men: Confronting Antisocial Personality Disorder
Book by Donald W. Black, C. Lindon Larson (Contributor)

The Antisocial Personalities
Book by David T. Lykken

Personality and Dangerousness: Genealogies of Antisocial Personality Disorder
Book by David McCallum

Antisocial Behavior: Personality Disorders from Hostility to Homicide
Book by Benjamin B. Wolman

Working Positively with Personality Disorder in Secure Settings: A Practitioner's Perspective (The Wiley Series in Personality Disorders) by Phil Willmot and Neil Gordon. Working Positively with Personality Disorder in Secure Settings provides a positive, compassionate and evidence-based guide to working with patients with personality disorders. Unique in both its coverage and in its positive and evidence-based approach to working with patients with personality disorders.

Antisocial Personality Disorder and Criminal Justice: Evidence-based practices for offenders & substance abusers by Gregory L. Little, Kenneth D. Robinson, Katherine Burnette, and & E. Stephen Swan. Psychologists consider the personality disorders to be the most researched of all psychiatric diagnoses, yet they remain a largely misunderstood factor in both criminal justice and substance abuse. Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD) is the most destructive personality disorder and afflicts just over 4% of American adults. The majority of people supervised in America's criminal justice system, which currently is 3.2% of the population, have ASPD. This textbook represents a comprehensive review of the criminal justice system, background and nature of ASPD, and the emerging concepts of applying evidence-based treatment practices. Recidivism, treatment outcomes, criminal personality and psychopathy, and effective practices are covered.

Multisystemic Therapy for Antisocial Behavior in Children and Adolescents by Scott W. Henggeler PhD, Phillippe B. Cunningham Phd, Sonja K. Schoenwald Phd, and Charles M. Borduin. Multisystemic therapy (MST) has grown dramatically since the initial publication of this comprehensive manual. Today, over 400 MST programs operate in more than 30 states and 10 countries, supported by a strong empirical evidence base. This book explains the principles of MST and provides clear guidelines for clinical assessment and intervention with delinquent youth and their families. Practitioners are guided to implement proven strategies for engaging clients and helping them to address the root causes of antisocial behavior, improve family functioning and peer relationships, enhance school performance, and build meaningful social supports.

Prototypical Analysis of Antisocial Personality Disorder 
A Study of Inmate Samples 
RICHARD ROGERS, RANDALL T. SALEKIN, KENNETH W. SEWELL, KEITH R. CRUISE, - cjb.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/27/2/234

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Conduct Disorder and Antisocial Personality Disorder in Persons With Severe Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorders 
Kim T. Mueser, Anne G. Crocker, Linda B. Frisman, Robert E. Drake, Nancy H. Covell and Susan M. Essock
Conduct disorder (CD) and antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) are established risk factors for substance use disorders in both the general population and among persons with schizophrenia and other severe mental illnesses.

Components of antisocial personality disorder among women convicted for drunken driving
B. W. Lex, M. E. Goldberg, J. H. Mendelson, N. S. Lawler and T. Bower 
Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Center, Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts 02178. 
For women, the temporal relationship between Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD) and alcoholism is unclear. Driving while intoxicated is both a symptom of ASPD and the alcohol-related problem most typically reported by women.

Bad Boys, Bad Men: Confronting Antisocial Personality Disorder
Book by Donald W. Black, C. Lindon Larson (Contributor)
From Library Journal
Black (psychiatry, Univ. of Iowa Coll. of Medicine) claims that ample new evidence from genetics and neuroscience supports a biological cause for antisocial personality disorder (ASP), lending truth to the adage "some people are simply born bad." ASP is intimately connected to many of society's ills, including crime, domestic violence, drug and alcohol abuse, and even rape and murder. For men with severe ASP, life becomes an opportunity to break all social and moral rules without remorse. But there are ways of detecting warning signs in troubled children, and there are procedures, various combinations of medication, psychotherapy, and social institutional interventions to prevent and treat ASP. Black emphasizes the fundamental need for a healthy moral conscience by analyzing a wide variety of case studies. An excellent companion title is Adrian Raine's The Psychology of Crime: Criminal Behavior as a Clinical Disorder (Academic, 1993). An eye opener suitable for all libraries.AChogollah Maroufi, California State Univ., Los Angeles
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Whether called black sheep, sociopaths, felons, con men, or misfits, some men break all the rules. They shirk everyday responsibilities, abuse drugs and alcohol, take up criminal careers, and lash out at family members. In the worst cases, they commit rape, murder, and other acts of extreme violence as though they lack a conscience. What makes these men--men we all know, whether as faces in the news or as people close to us--behave the way they do?
Bad Boys, Bad Men examines antisocial personality disorder or ASP, the mysterious mental condition that underlies this lifelong penchant for bad behavior. Psychiatrist and researcher Donald W. Black, MD, draws on case studies, scientific data, and current events to explore antisocial behavior and to chart the history, nature, and treatment of a misunderstood disorder that affects up to seven million Americans. Citing new evidence from genetics and neuroscience, Black argues that this condition is tied to biological causes and that some people are simply born bad. Bad Boys, Bad Men introduces us to people like Ernie, the quintessential juvenile delinquent who had an incestuous relationship with his mother and descended into crime and alcoholism; and John Wayne Gacy, the notorious serial killer whose lifelong pattern of misbehavior escalated to the rape and murder of more than 30 young men and boys. These compelling cases read like medical detective stories as Black tries to separate the lies these men tell from the facts of their lives.
Bad Boys, Bad Men not only describes the warning signs that predict which troubled children are more likely to become dangerous adults, but also details progress toward treatment for ASP. This volume will be an essential resource for psychiatrists, psychologists, criminologists, victims of crime, families of individuals afflicted with ASP, and anyone else interested in understanding antisocial behavior.

Personality and Dangerousness: Genealogies of Antisocial Personality Disorder
Book by David McCallum
Review
"...a valuable sociological history..." American Journal of Sociology
Tracing the history of the category of antisocial personality disorder, this study reveals its emergence is linked to particular kinds of governing, rather than simply to advances in the human sciences or a means of social control. David McCallum examines key legal and institutional developments in Australia, the U.K, and the U.S. as well as parallel developments within psychiatry and psychological medicine. Applying a social theoretical analysis to this material, he challenges our assumptions about the formation and control concepts of dangerousness and personality.
David McCallum is Associate Professor in Sociology at Victoria University in Melbourne. He is the author of The Social Productions of Merit (1990) and numerous chapters and articles on the history of human sciences and government.

Antisocial Behavior: Personality Disorders from Hostility to Homicide
Book by Benjamin B. Wolman
Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
The rise in sociopathic behavior among adults and children is troublesome, and this title by a leading psychologist discusses the trends, incidence and treatment of sociopathic antisocial attitudes. This not only explains the problem, it draws important correlations between causes and solutions which include social as well as personal approaches.

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