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. 1991 Aug;100(3):391-8.
doi: 10.1037//0021-843x.100.3.391.

Psychopathy and the DSM-IV criteria for antisocial personality disorder

R D Hare  1 , S D Hart, T J Harpur
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Psychopathy and the DSM-IV criteria for antisocial personality disorder

R D Hare et al. J Abnorm Psychol. 1991 Aug.
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Abstract

The Axis II Work Group of the Task Force on DSM-IV has expressed concern that antisocial personality disorder (APD) criteria are too long and cumbersome and that they focus on antisocial behaviors rather than personality traits central to traditional conceptions of psychopathy and to international criteria. We describe an alternative to the approach taken in the rev. 3rd ed. of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III-R; American Psychiatric Association, 1987), namely, the revised Psychopathy Checklist. We also discuss the multisite APD field trials designed to evaluate and compare four criteria sets: the DSM-III-R criteria, a shortened list of these criteria, the criteria for dyssocial personality disorder from the 10th ed. of the International Classification of Diseases (World Health Organization, 1990), and a 10-item criteria set for psychopathic personality disorder derived from the revised Psychopathy Checklist.

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