RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Female Residents with Psychopathy in a High-Security Italian Hospital
JF Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online
JO J Am Acad Psychiatry Law
FD American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
SP 171
OP 178
DO 10.29158/JAAPL.003744-18
VO 46
IS 2
A1 Felice Carabellese
A1 Alan R. Felthous
A1 Ilaria Rossetto
A1 Donatella La Tegola
A1 Filippo Franconi
A1 Roberto Catanesi
YR 2018
UL http://jaapl.org/content/46/2/171.abstract
AB Before its closure on April 1, 2015, the Castiglione delle Stiviere was the only maximum-security hospital in Italy that admitted women. In this context, the investigators examined factors related to psychopathy that were thought to be gender specific. Several prior investigations have reported a significant correlation between psychopathy and borderline personality disorder, a disorder thought to represent the phenotypical expression of psychopathy in women. The purpose of this research was to identify psychopathological and phenotypical gender-specific factors that are associated with psychopathy in women. The data appear consistent with that found in the recent international literature and also highlight the different phenotypical manifestation of psychopathy in the two genders. Whereas in males psychopathy is associated with antisocial personality disorder, in females psychopathy is associated with borderline personality disorder.