Evidence for clinical heterogeneity in antisocial alcoholics

Comprehensive PsychiatryPublished 1 March 1984

Alan C. Whitters, Ed Troughton, Remi J. Cadoret, Reuben B. Widmer

DOI10.1016/0010-440x(84)90004-x

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The results support the concept of heterogeneity in alcoholic antisocials similar to the dichotomy of primary and secondary sociopaths which has been proposed from studies of nonalcoholic sociopathic samples.

Abstract

Alcoholics with a diagnosis of antisocial personality were divided into two groups on the basis of number of depressive symptoms. The antisocials with a higher number of depressive symptoms (five or more) showed a greater number of other types of psychopathologic symptoms when compared to the antisocials with a low number of depressive symptoms. The results support the concept of heterogeneity in alcoholic antisocials similar to the dichotomy of primary and secondary sociopaths which has been proposed from studies of nonalcoholic sociopathic samples.

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