Craft Ten Studies Into Psychopathic Personality

A Report to the Home Office and the Mental Health Research Fund
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4831-9326-7
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
Format: PDF
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Ten Studies Into Psychopathic Personality concerns ten studies made on psychopathic disorders in Britain from 1958 to 1963. These studies cover 100 subjects who were admitted at the Balderton Hospital in 1958. These studies cover subjects such as diagnostic analysis, E.E.G. technique, parental separation and severity disorder, conscience, and prognosis of psychopaths. Six studies describe work on patient admissions for treatment of psychopathic disorders, while four reports investigate hypotheses through comparison of those admissions to groups of normal, delinquent, and psychopathic individuals. These reports show a continuum in personality disorder from normality, to minor behavioral disorders to extreme psychosis. Some general conclusions note that no evidence exists between direct genetic endowment from parent to psychopathic traits of children, as well as more studies need to clinically define psychopathic behavior from lesser personality disorders. Other conclusions show very little knowledge at hand for effectively treating psychopathic behavior; other results point to differential improvement to different treatments. These studies will interest, psychiatrists, psychologists, behavioral scientists, researchers and academicians dealing with deviant human behavior.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Craft, Michael

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Front Cover;1
2;Ten Studies into Psychopathic Personality;2
3;Copyright Page;3
4;Table of Contents;6
5;PREFACE;4
6;THE TEN STUDIES;7
7;CHAPTER ONE. HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE CONCEPT OF PSYCHOPATHIC PERSONALITY;8
7.1;The Social and Legal Concept of Psychopathic Disorder in England in 1959;15
8;CHAPTER TWO. REVIEW OF LITERATURE BEARING ON AETIOLOGY OF PSYCHOPATHIC PERSONALITY;18
8.1;Genetic Factors in Causation;18
8.2;Brain Damage in the Aetiology of Psychopathic Personality;19
8.3;The Effects of Parental Separation;23
8.4;Adverse Family and Group Attitudes;26
8.5;Learning Theory;30
8.6;Summary and Conclusions from the Review of the Literature;30
9;CHAPTER THREE. DIAGNOSIS AND AETIOLOGY ILLUSTRATED BY AN ANALYSIS OF ADMISSIONS TO A PSYCHOPATHIC UNIT;33
9.1;Historical Data;34
9.2;Present Behaviour : Clinical Examination;38
9.3;Special Testing Techniques : Psychological Tests;41
9.4;Special Electro-encephalography;44
9.5;Historical, Clinical and Test Data, with the First Follow-up One Year after Discharge.;51
9.6;Type of Offence;52
9.7;Relation to E.E.G. Findings;53
9.8;Clinical Sub-groups;55
9.9;Summary;55
10;CHAPTER FOUR. AETIOLOGY ILLUSTRATED BY THE EARLY ADVERSE FACTORS NOTED IN GROUPS OF PSYCHOPATHS, DELINQUENT AND NORMAL YOUTHS;56
10.1;Groups of Patients Used;57
10.2;Comment and Conclusions;60
10.3;Summary;61
11;CHAPTER FIVE. A HYPOTHESIS THAT AMONG BALDERTON ADMISSIONS, SEVERITY OF PERSONALITY DISORDER IS POSITIVELY CORRELATED WITH ADVERSITY OF PARENTAL RELATIONSHIP;61
11.1;Grade 0 : A Consistently Love Orientated Parent;62
11.2;Grade 1 : An Erratically Love Orientated Parent;62
11.3;Grade 2 : The Lax Parent;62
11.4;Grade 3 : The Erratically Hostile Parent;62
11.5;Grade 4 : The Consistently Hostile Parent;62
11.6;Grade 5 : The Absent or Dead Parent;62
11.7;Case Histories;65
11.8;Discussion;70
11.9;Summary;71
12;CHAPTER SIX. CONSCIENCE IN PSYCHOPATHIC AND "NORMAL" ADOLESCENTS;71
12.1;Summary;76
13;CHAPTER SEVEN. TREATMENT, REVIEWED FROM THE LITERATURE, AND WITH A CONTROL SERIES;77
13.1;Results;82
13.2;1. Difference between the groups at entry;82
13.3;2. Difference between groups during stay and at discharge;83
13.4;Conclusions;87
13.5;Summary;88
14;CHAPTER EIGHT. FOLLOW-UP STUDIES;88
14.1;Penal Follow-up Studies;91
14.2;Hospital Studies;93
14.3;1. Rampton;93
14.4;2. Moss Side;93
14.5;3. A mixed State Hospital Series;94
14.6;4. Warren's Bethlem Adolescents;94
14.7;5. A re-analysis of Royal Western Counties patients previously reported;94
14.8;6. Joy Tuxford's Analysis of Maxwell Jones patients;95
14.9;7. A Second Annual Follow-up with Balderton Males;96
14.10;A Simple Prediction Scale using Current Data;97
14.11;1. Determination of the Factors included;98
14.12;2. Determination of the Weights;99
14.13;3. Interpretation of the Index;100
15;CHAPTER NINE. CONCLUSIONS;102
15.1;Historical Features;103
15.2;Present Clinical Features;103
15.3;Differential Diagnosis;106
15.4;Special Testing Techniques;107
15.5;Aetiology;108
15.6;Further Research;112
16;APPENDIX: THE CASE HISTORY OF GWYN;114
16.1;Comment;119
17;ACKNOWLEDGMENTS;119
18;BIBLIOGRAPHY;120