Saddam suffered from a severe personality disorders. He had a Narcissistic personality disorder combined with Antisocial and Schizotypal personality disorders to some degree. ... These are obvious signs that he suffered from Oppositional Defiant Disorder when he was a kid and it progressed to more prominent conduct disorder growing up as a teen. ... Drugs could not be beneficial in his case because they might have increased the manic episodes and other personality disorders that could be related to that. ...

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Our text book, on the other hand, defines the diagnostic criteria of the antisocial personality disorder as; A.. ... Evidence of conduct disorder with onset before age 15 years. ... Hare states that the definition of these two terms depends on what the person defining the term believes is the cause of the disorder. For example, if the person believes the disorder is caused, "entirely by social forces and early experiences- they will call the person with the disorder a sociopath. ... Hare) believe that a psychopathic disorder is caused by a combination of factors (e.g. psychological, biologi...

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