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Jodi Arias
Choice, deliberation, violence: Mental capacity and criminal responsibility in personality disorder

Choice, deliberation, violence: Mental capacity and criminal responsibility in personality disorder

Image: Jodi Arias   Author: Hanna Pickard   Abstract Personality disorder is associated with self-harm and suicide, as well as criminal offending and violence towards others. These behaviours overlap when the means chosen to self-harm or attempt suicide put others at risk. In such circumstances, an individual’s mental state at one and the same time may be deemed to meet the conditions for criminal responsibility, and to warrant involuntary hospital admission. I explore this tension in how people with personality…

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The relationship between suicide and violence in schizophrenia: Analysis of the Clinical Antipsychotic Trials of Intervention Effectiveness (CATIE) dataset

The relationship between suicide and violence in schizophrenia: Analysis of the Clinical Antipsychotic Trials of Intervention Effectiveness (CATIE) dataset

KatrinaWitta KeithHawtonb SeenaFazela a University of Oxford, Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford OX3 7JX, UK b Centre for Suicide Research, University of Oxford, Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford OX3 7JX, UK Received 28 October 2013, Revised 20 January 2014, Accepted 2 February 2014, Available online 26 February 2014. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2014.02.001 Under a Creative Commons license open access Abstract Background Suicide and violence often co-occur in the general population as well as in mentally ill individuals. Few studies, however, have…

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Personality Disorders, Types of Violence, and Stress Responses in Female Who Perpetrate Intimate Partner Violence

Personality Disorders, Types of Violence, and Stress Responses in Female Who Perpetrate Intimate Partner Violence

Psychology Vol.4, No.9A1, 5-11 Published Online September 2013 in SciRes (http://www.scirp.org/journal/psych)                                                                    http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/psych.2013.49A1002 Alicia Spidel1, Caroline Greaves2,3, Tonia L. Nicholls2,3, Julie Goldenson4, Donald G. Dutton2 1University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada 2University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada 3British Columbia Mental Health and Addiction Services, Vancouver, Canada 4Adler School of Professional Psychology, Toronto, Canada Email: aliciaspidel@aim.com   Received July 1st, 2013; revised August 5th, 2013; accepted September 2nd, 2013   Copyright © 2013 Alicia Spidel et al. This is an open access article…

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The role of Impulsivity in Antisocial and violent behavior and personality disorders among incarcerated women

The role of Impulsivity in Antisocial and violent behavior and personality disorders among incarcerated women

IRINA KOMAROVSKAYA ANN BOOKER LOPER JANET WARREN University of Virginia   This study investigated the relationships among impulsivity, antisocial and violent behavior, and personality disorders in 590 female inmates of a maximum-security female prison. Measures included the Barratt Impulsivity Scale, Prison Violence Inventory, Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Personality Disorders Screening Questionnaire, numbers of institutional infractions recorded in inmate files, and violent versus nonviolent offending. Results showed that impulsivity was associated with personality psychopathology and aggressive and antisocial behavior. In…

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Illuminating the Relationship Between Personality Disorder and Violence: Contributions of the General Aggression Model

Illuminating the Relationship Between Personality Disorder and Violence: Contributions of the General Aggression Model

Psychology of Violence                                                                                                                                     © 2011 American Psychological  Association 2011, Vol. 1, No. 3,  230 –244                                                                                                                        2152-0828/11/$12.00    DOI: 10.1037/a0024089   Flora Gilbert Monash University Michael Daffern Monash University, Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health, and Rampton Hospital   Introduction Although a consensus exists among mental health professionals that certain personality disorders are associated with an increased propensity for violence, uncertainties regarding the nature and extent of this relationship persist. Previous approaches to studying the personality disorder-violence relationship are also hampered by…

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Borderline personality disorder and violence in the UK population: categorical and dimensional trait assessment

Borderline personality disorder and violence in the UK population: categorical and dimensional trait assessment

BMC Psychiatry. 2016; 16: 180. Published online 2016 Jun 3. doi:  10.1186/s12888-016-0885-7 PMCID: PMC4891918 Rafael A. González, Artemis Igoumenou, Constantinos Kallis, and Jeremy W. Coid Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► This article has been cited by other articles in PMC. Abstract Background Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is characterised by difficulties with impulse control and affective dysregulation. It is unclear whether BPD contributes to the perpetration of violence or whether this is explained by comorbidity….

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Antisocial Personality Disorders

Antisocial Personality Disorders

  Glenn, A.L. & Raine, A. (2011). Antisocial Personality Disorders. In J. Decety & J. Cacioppo (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Social Neuroscience (pp. 885-894). New York: Oxford University Press.     Antisocial Personality Disorders Andrea L. Glenn1  & Adrian Raine2 1Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, 3720 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States 2Departments of Criminology, Psychiatry, and Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, 3720 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States   Abstract Neuroscience research is beginning to uncover…

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Violence and personality disorders: clinical and forensic implications

Violence and personality disorders: clinical and forensic implications

Special article 1Medical specialist in Legal and Forensic Medicine and in Psychiatry, Psychologist and Doctor in Psychology, Forensic physician in the “Juzgado de Instruccion” (Instruction Courts) of Madrid 2Cibersam, Facultad de Psicología, Universidad del País Vasco   Actas Esp Psiquiatr 2010;38(5):249-261   Violence and personality disorders: clinical and forensic implications Violencia y trastornos de la personalidad: implicaciones clínicas forenses Several studies have provided strong evidence that personality disorders (PD) represent a significant clinical risk for violence. This review has aimed…

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A systematic review on the relationship between antisocial, borderline and narcissistic personality disorder diagnostic traits and risk of violence to others in a clinical and forensic sample

A systematic review on the relationship between antisocial, borderline and narcissistic personality disorder diagnostic traits and risk of violence to others in a clinical and forensic sample

  Lowenstein et al. Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation (2016) 3:14 DOI 10.1186/s40479-016-0046-0 Joe Lowenstein*, Charlotte Purvis and Katie Rose Correspondence: lowenstein@nhs.net Pan Dorset Pathfinder Service, Dorset Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, St. Ann’s Hospital, 69 Haven Road, Canford Cliffs, Poole, Dorset BH13 7LN, UK © 2016 The Author(s). Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give…

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Thyroid hormones and adult interpersonal violence among women with borderline personality disorder

Thyroid hormones and adult interpersonal violence among women with borderline personality disorder

  Cave Sinai a,n, Tatja  Hirvikoski b, Anna-Lena  Nordström a, Peter Nordström a, Åsa Nilsonne a, Alexander Wilczek a, Marie Åsberg c, Jussi Jokinen a,d a Department of Clinical Neuroscience/Psychiatry, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Solna SE-171 76 Stockholm, Sweden     b Department of Children’s and Women’s Health, Center for Neurodevelopmental Disorders at Karolinska Institutet (KIND), Gävlegatan 22B, 113  30  Stockholm, Sweden c Department of  Clinical  Sciences, Karolinska Institutet,  Danderyd Hospital,  Stockholm, Sweden d Department of  Clinical  Sciences/Psychiatry, Umeå University, Umeå, …

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