What are personality disorders? What are the key characteristics of antisocial personality disorder? Should individuals be found insane solely on the basis of antisocial personality disorder?

What will be an ideal response?


* Personality disorders are characterized by long-standing, difficult-to-treat dysfunctional behaviors that are first observed in adolescence.
* The key characteristics of antisocial personality disorder are deceit, impulsiveness, and reckless actions for which individuals feel no sense of remorse
* The response should indicate whether such individuals are sane or not, with some basis in the definition of personality disorders or abnormal behaviors.

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