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Antisocial Personality Disorder

 Subject
Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings
Scope Note: 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)

Found in 526 Collections and/or Records:

1.1 Female, 25-34 yrs, Psychopathic personality, June 1947

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/1
Scope and Contents From the File:

Questionnaires for persons in Area 1.

Dates: Other: June 1947
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Social Work / Mental Health Survey / Survey Data / Area 1

1.8 Female, 15-24 yrs, Psychopathic personality, June 1947

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/1
Scope and Contents From the File:

Questionnaires for persons in Area 1.

Dates: Other: June 1947
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Social Work / Mental Health Survey / Survey Data / Area 1

1.9 Male, 15-24 yrs, Psychopathic personality, May 1947

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/1
Scope and Contents From the File:

Questionnaires for persons in Area 1.

Dates: Other: May 1947
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Social Work / Mental Health Survey / Survey Data / Area 1

4.7 Male, Separated or divorced, 45-54 yrs, Psychopathic personality, September 1946

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/4
Scope and Contents

"This man is unreliable, once embezzled £20 and had to repay it, lives apart from his wife. He is illegitimate. Now repairs cycles etc."


Relatives in survey: Wife 4.8; children 4.6, 4.5

Dates: Other: September 1946
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Social Work / Mental Health Survey / Survey Data / Area 4

5.6 Female, Married, 35-44 yrs, Dull and Backward, Psychopathic personality, May 1946

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/5
Scope and Contents

This woman is a right bad egg, loose, entertains soldiers, has harboured deserters. W.R. +. Entertained Italians, kept her children off school to do the housework. These children are "not very special" but could have been decent citizens - described as a "low I.Q. family" - but evidently not below 85. Housing: two rooms, dirty, for 5 or 6. Inharmonious. No P.A.


Relatives in survey: Daughter 5.62

Dates: Other: May 1946
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Social Work / Mental Health Survey / Survey Data / Area 5

5.9 Male, Single, 15-24 yrs, Psychopathic personality, January 1946

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/5
Scope and Contents

This lad is said to be a bad lot, has been in trouble with the Police. Used to do odd jobs, now in the army. He was a difficult child, unhappy in his cousins' home.

Dates: Other: January 1946
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Social Work / Mental Health Survey / Survey Data / Area 5

7.5 Female, Married, 35-44 yrs, Psychopathic personality, June 1947

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/7
Scope and Contents

"This woman is a termagant, language ++. Was a poor witness at the clinic. Said to be very worried about her husband but Nurse says she was not right before she married him. Has one illegitimate child, is unwise in her treatment of her children."


Relatives in survey: 7.6

Dates: June 1947
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Social Work / Mental Health Survey / Survey Data / Area 7

7.7 Male, Married, 35-44 yrs, Psychopathic personality, Stammering, June 1947

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/7
Scope and Contents

"An estate woker, has a slight stammer, has a mild tremor of the hands. "Goes astray" - has had affairs with local women. Was a military policeman of better class than his wife. Brother died of "paralysis" - he had a tremor too."


Relatives in survey: Wife 7.5; daughter 7.6

Dates: June 1947
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Social Work / Mental Health Survey / Survey Data / Area 7

8.9 Male, Single, 15-24 yrs, Psychopathic personality, June 1947

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/8
Scope and Contents From the File:

Questionnaires for persons in Area 8. Indexed.

Dates: Other: June 1947
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Social Work / Mental Health Survey / Survey Data / Area 8

9.8 Female, Married, 25-34 yrs, Psychopathic personality, February 1947

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/9
Scope and Contents From the File:

Questionnaires for persons in Area 9. Indexed.

Dates: Other: February 1947
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Social Work / Mental Health Survey / Survey Data / Area 9

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