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Antisocial Personalities

Antisocial Personalities Definition & Meaning
Antisocial Personalities Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Medical Term Antisocial Personalities?

A personality disorder whose essential feature is a pervasive pattern of disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others that begins in childhood or early adolescence and continues into adulthood. The individual must be at least age 18 and must have a history of some symptoms of CONDUCT DISORDER before age 15. (From DSM-IV, 1994)

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