What's the Point?  We think use of "Anti-Social Personality Disorder" within the Criminal Justice System is Arbitrary & Capricious, and ignores much of what we know about emotional dysregulation which often is a prominent issue for Criminal Defendants.
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EMOTIONAL DYSREGULATON
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Behavioral & Emotional Dysregulation is Not Well Characterized
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​"These factors suggest that behavioral and emotional dysregulation is not well characterized using current diagnostic nomenclature, and may represent a behavioral dimension(s) that cut across different diagnostic categories.

"Adopting a dimensional approach to the study of behavioral and emotional dysregulation in youth parallels the approach advocated by the NIMH RDoC (Insel et al., 2010)."
Behavioral and emotional dysregulation trajectories marked by prefrontal-amygdala function in symptomatic youth (2014)

1Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, University of Pittsburgh
2University Hospitals Case Medical Center/Case Western Reserve University
3Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, Wayne State University
4Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati
5The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital
6Department of Child Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine
7Department of Psychiatry, Ohio State University
8Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
9Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University
10Department of Psychological Medicine, Cardiff University
​11Alpert Medical School, Brown University
TherapyShow (March 2, 2020)

Dr. William Dodson  Discusses ADHD symptom "Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria"

Dr. Dodson is retired from practice in Greenwood Village, Colorado and is recognized internationally as an expert in ADHD.  

Europe has recently recognized "emotional dysregulation" as a component of ADHD.