Self-Reflected Developmental Antecedents of Antisocial Personality Disorder: A Case Study

Abstract

Background- People with Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD) Shares the outstanding specific characteristics of their tendency to persistently disregard and violate the rights of others, through a combination of deceitful, aggressive, and asocial actions. Further when it adds with the co-morbidity of alcohol use disorder, the personality triggers the consumption of alcohol increasing the severity level and leading to the restrictions during the treatment course. The present study focuses on the study of the reflected antecedents to the development of the antisocial personality disorder of the case under study with the co-morbidity of alcohol used disorder. Methods- The present study uses a sample of 52 years old male as a case study, where he’s been diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder and alcohol use disorder by the psychiatrist, the methodology used here as Qualitative research method, a case study method, where sampling has purposive sampling method, and also a tool the PID- 5 the test for personality disorder for DSM- 5 is used, and further narrative analysis is used for data analysis, Result –This study is based on the qualitative research methodology and does not include any statistical measures. The results shows the personality traits that came out through the narrative analysis of the case as being largely dishonesty, lack of guilt, impulsivity perversity, hostility and aggressiveness, manipulativeness and threat- taking actions. Conclusion- The result and discussion shows that the studied case shows the traits of dishonesty, lack of guilt, impulsivity perversity, hostility and aggressiveness, manipulativeness and threat- taking actions, further when under the influence of alcohol worsen the traits even to a greater severity.