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Intergenerational transmission of antisocial personality disorder: Maternal role and its declination

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

E. Di Giacomo
Affiliation:
PhD program in Neuroscience, Doctorate School of the University of Milano-Bicocca, Psychiatric Department, S. Gerardo Health Care Trust-Italy, Milan, Italy
M. Clerici
Affiliation:
University of Milano Bicocca, School of Medicine and Surgery, Monza, Italy

Abstract

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Antisocial personality disorder is a well-established disease which features space from cruelty to lack of empathy and remorse. Its etiology has been deeply analyzed both for genetic and environmental implications. The role of family context has been underlined throughout the whole psychopathology as an explanation to the etiological conflict between nature and nurture. Even if this conflict seems to be apparently solved, it is still possible to ponder about family implications in terms of causes and consequences. In the antisocial field, maternal role may offer interesting and surprising food for thought. Even if it is commonly believed an intergenerational transmission of aberrant behaviors, particularly in terms of learning behaviors and lack of empathy assimilation, it exists a side part of maternal pathological expression that may play a role in the intergenerational transmission and it is extremely difficult to be detected. Female declination of this disorder may be expressed also through somatic implications and complaints, leading to the hypothesis of a self-reflection of the lack of consideration for other's needs, which is distinctive. It is of extreme importance, particularly in terms of prevention, to consider and identify these connotations of the disorder to be able to try to interrupt the cycle of transmission through generations.

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e-Poster Viewing: Forensic psychiatry
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Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2017
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