Lynn married Philip after a short whirlwind romance

She had found Philip to be charming and a smooth-talker. Several months into the marriage, she began to realize that Philip had taken all the money from her savings accounts, had pawned some of her jewelry, and had run up huge bills on her credit cards. Philip had also been lying all along about working at the business where Lynn had been dropping him off each morning. Worse yet, when Philip was confronted, he just laughed at Lynn. Philip would be diagnosed with which personality disorder?
a. schizoid
b. antisocial
c. narcissistic
d. borderline


ANSWER: b

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