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KMID : 0377819890090080938
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Diagnosis and Treatment
1989 Volume.9 No. 8 p.938 ~ p.942
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ALCOHOLISM WITH ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER
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Alcoholism can be defined as a disease marked by. the chronic, excessive use of alcohol that pro duces psycholgical, interpersonal, and medical probleans. Most of the psychological theories of alcoholism have been developed from observation of personality patterns of alcoholic patients. And drinking behavior is thought to be a manifestation of some underlying motives based upon the personality or affestive state of the individual. Male alcoholics with cormobid antisocial personality disorder ofen manifest an earlier onset of alcohol dependence. The authors experienced a case of alcohol dependence with anti-social personality disorder who showed early onset conduct disorders assocated with drinking and with the strong evidence of three generation family history.
We presented the personal history of the case, and then reviewed the etiologies of alcoholism currently being discussed.
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