Antisocial Personality Disorder The Crucible By Arthur...

Antisocial Personality Disorder Antisocial personality disorder is a very common mental disease around the U.S that can be treated, but not cured. In the play, The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, a young girl named Abigail Williams was a seventeen year old â€Å"Strikingly beautiful girl, an orphan, with and endless capacity for dissembling.† (Miller 1130). Throughout the play, Abigail’s personality has been very mean and unpleasant, which has made her full of nothing but worry, apprehension, and propriety (Miller 1130). Her personality change relates to a well-known disorder called Antisocial personality disorder, also known as APD. APD is a mental condition where a person’s â€Å"ways of thinking, perceiving situations, and relating to others are dysfunctional--and destructive†(Mayo Staff). Symptoms of this disorder are triggered during early childhood years and are â€Å"fully evident for most people during their 20’s and 30’s†(Mayo Sta ff). APD is a disorder that has symptoms that apply to Abigail because she often lies to people, she has had a hard life at home, and she intimidated people into doing what she wanted them to do. ` Abigail Williams has APD because she lies a lot throughout the play. Some of many signs and symptoms of antisocial personality disorder may include â€Å"persistent lying or deceit to exploit others†(Mayo Staff). During The Crucible, when Abigail is attending court, she tended to make up different lies such as â€Å"No one was naked! You mistake yourself, Uncle† (MillerShow MoreRelatedStephen P. Robbins Timothy A. Judge (2011) Organizational Behaviour 15th Edition New Jersey: Prentice Hall393164 Words   |  1573 Pages0-13-283487-1 ISBN 13: 978-0-13-283487-2 Brief Contents Preface xxii 1 2 Introduction 1 What Is Organizational Behavior? 3 The Individual 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Diversity in Organizations 39 Attitudes and Job Satisfaction 69 Emotions and Moods 97 Personality and Values 131 Perception and Individual Decision Making 165 Motivation Concepts 201 Motivation: From Concepts to Applications 239 3 The Group 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Foundations of Group Behavior 271 Understanding Work Teams 307 CommunicationRead MoreRastafarian79520 Words   |  319 PagesAfrican and AfroChristian religions, Ethiopianism, and Garveyism are the sources that shaped the Rastafarian ideology, its posture of resistance, and some of its practices and beliefs. I also trace the career of Leonard Howell, the charismatic personality who exerted the most inï ¬â€šuence on the movement in its formative stages. Chapter 3 looks at the Rastafarian view of Babylon and the Rastafarian development of a distinct culture as a response to life on the underside of a society shaped by theRead MoreManagement Course: Mba−10 General Management215330 Words   |  862 Pagesusually was judged and measured by the depth and capability and hard-asset credentials of the company’s management. That, of course, remains critically important. However, American companies whose performance most readily slipped in the economic crucible at the beginning of the twenty-first century (and whose recovery was among the slowest) seemed to rate highest in hard-asset terms compared with the many companies with a higher mix of soft-asset management strength, whose results were far better