Antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) has a distinct cognitive proile according to cognitive theory of personality disorders. Antisocial individuals' view of the world is personal rather than interpersonal. They cannot accept another's point of view over their own. As such, they cannot take on the role of another. Their actions are not based on choices in a social sense because of this cognitive limitation. Cognitive theory of personality disorders conceptualizes personality disorder including the ASPD, according to their basic beliefs or schemas. The content of beliefs can vary in diferent personality disorders. Antisocial patients view themselves as loners, autonomous, and strong. Some of them see themselves as having been abused and mistreated by society and therefore justify victimizing others because they believe that they have been victimized. Their view about other people is very negative; they see others as exploitative and thus deserving of being exploited in retaliation. In this chapter, after overviewing general features of ASPD, we aim to give an explanation how cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) conceptualizes personality disorders in general and ASPD in particular and highlight the important implementations of CBT and schema therapy.

OBJECTIVE: The objective of the current study is to establish the psychometric properties and factorial validity of the Turkish version of the Luebeck Questionnaire for Recording Preoperational Thinking (LQPT) in a Turkish sample. METHODS: The study was conducted in Istanbul Metropolitan area and comprised of healthy controls (n = 33) and patients with psychiatric diagnoses (n = 60). Socio-demographic data of the participants were collected and the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis I Disorders (SCID-I), the Dysfunctional Attitude Scale (DAS-A), and the LQPT were administered. RESULTS: The mean age of the study participants was 30.51 ± 8.75; 64.5% (n = 60) of the participants were female; 35.5% (n = 33) were male. The LQPT scores were non-normally distributed. The Cronbach's alpha for the LQPT scale was found 0.887 and the split-half reliability coefficient was 0.902. The inter-item correlation was ranging from 0.189 to 0.705. A negative and statistically significant correlation was found between the Turkish LQPT and the DAS-A and its subscales. The principal-components analysis with Promax rotated solution yielded two factors which accounted for 46.43% of the total variance. CONCLUSIONS: Our results suggested that Turkish LQPT was a valid and reliable instrument with a robust factorial structure for tapping the cognitive components associated with the development of depression in clinical psychiatric populations in Turkey.

Introduction: There have been deaths and injuries after an explosion which happened in an industrial region in Ankara in February 2011. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of acute stress disorder (ASD) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and to determine the variables which can be the risk factors for PTSD.

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Introduction: Therapist can assess patients’ maladaptive beliefs about drug via Craving Beliefs Questionnaire (CBQ), which was originally developed by Wright to measure beliefs about the craving phenomenon. The aim of the study is to assess the psychometric properties of CBQ and its usefulness in the patients with alcohol dependency. Method: The study population was consisted of 70 alcohol addict male patients. Beliefs about substance use questionnaire (BSU), craving beliefs questionnaire (CBQ), Beck anxiety inventory (BAI), clinical institute withdrawal assessment (CIWA), automatic thoughts questionnaire (ATQ) and dysfunctional attitudes scale (DAS) were used as the assessment tools. Results: The internal consistency of the CBQ for the alcohol dependent was adequate (Cronbach’s alpha 0.94). Item-total score correlations were between 0.50 and 0.84 for alcohol-dependent patients. The principal component analysis revealed one main factor. Positive correlations found between CBQ, and BSU, BAI and ATQ. In discriminant validity analysis, mean CBQ scores were found significantly higher than occasional drinkers and none-alcohol drinkers. Conclusion: Our results supported that the Turkish version of the CBQ has an adequate instrument for evaluating alcohol-related craving beliefs in alcoholic patients. However, further studies should be performed for assessing its validity in large number of social drinkers and alcohol-dependent patient

Disulfiram has been used for the treatment of alcohol dependence for nearly 65 years and is approved by the Food and Drug Administration. It causes negative reinforcement by accumulating toxic acetaldehyde due to irreversible inhibition of aldehyde dehydrogenase. Disulfiram has very few side effects when taken without alcohol. Epileptic seizure induction is a rare side effect in therapeutic doses, and its mechanism is unknown. We present a patient with a single epileptic seizure which was thought to be due to disulfiram used in the treatment of alcohol dependence. We did not find it ethical to administer disulfiram again because the patient discontinued alcohol use and was afraid of epileptic seizures.

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