Antisocial Personality Disorder

**Definition:** 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).

**Tree numbers:** - F03.675.050

**Synonyms:** - Psychopathic Personality - Antisocial Personality - Personality Disorder, Antisocial - Sociopathic Personality