What are the treatments for antisocial personality disorder?

What are the treatments for antisocial personality disorder?

Rhoda Hahn (Psychiatrist) gives expert video advice on: What are the dangers of antisocial personality disorder?; Who is at risk for antisocial personality disorder? and more...

Patients with antisocial personality disorder show a consistent lack of regard for the rights and feelings of other people. Now, this is the one personality disorder that you have to actually have met criteria for another disorder before the age of fifteen. So, while most personality disorders aren't diagnosed until the age of eighteen, this one is also not diagnosed until the age of eighteen; however, you have to meet criteria for having a conduct disorder before the age of fifteen. A conduct disorder is essentially the exact same thing: a persistent disregard for the rights and feelings of other people. So, this personality disorder is unique in the sense that it, the behavior, has to go back, way back, into childhood.