Antisocial and Dyssocial

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ONE OF the recent changes introduced by the committee on nomenclature and statistics of the American Psychiatric Association: (APA) was to more clearly delineate the antisocial and dyssocial categories. Whereas the former Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)1held these two categories to be equally distinct subtypes of a larger group of sociopathic personality disorders, the new DSM (ed 2)2considers only the antisocial group as a subtype of personality disorders; the dyssocial group was moved into a newly-formed division of the manual named ``Conditions Without Manifest Psychiatric Disorder and Non-specific Conditions.'' These changes represent a big step from the previous concept which viewed these two categories to be on the same hierarchical level of organization; what was seen as a distinct and easilyrecognizable personality type of ``dyssocial reaction'' is now to be referred to as ques

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