Antisocial behaviour/ Dissocial personality is characterised by

1. Callous inconcern for the feelings of others. 2. Gross and persistent attitude of irresponsibility and disregard for social norms, rules and regulations, 3. incapacity to maintain enduring relationships, though having no difficulty in establishing them 4. very low tolerance to frustration and a low threshold for discharge of aggression, including violence. 5. incapacity to experience guilt or to profit from experience, paicularly punishment. 6. marked proneness to blame others, or to offer plausible rationlisations, for the behaviour that has brought patient into conflict with society. Ref: ICD-10, CDDG, pg 159.